Merodon submetallicus Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 258

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981787

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scientific name

Merodon submetallicus Rondani, 1857
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Merodon submetallicus Rondani, 1857 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 54 (key), 63 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ a Germania … et … prope Augustam Taurinorum [ Germany … and near Turin ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: not found in this study. See Remarks.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Merodon rufus Meigen, 1838 View in CoL ( Peck 1988: 173, Belcari et al. 1995a: 16).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 63) described Merodon submetallicus from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material received from Germany and L. Bellardi. We could not locate any type specimens during this study. Not included in the type series are a MZUF male and a MSNC male from “Apenn. [= Apennines]” because it is not the type locality, a female because of its sex, a MZUF male numbered “63” dated “1869”, which is subsequent to the original description, and a MSNC specimen because it is not from the type locality.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Merodon

Loc

Merodon submetallicus Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele 2021
2021
Loc

Merodon rufus

Meigen 1838
1838
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