Microdon aethiopicus Rondani, 1873

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 260

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981795

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FECE-FEA8-5889-FF1BFA37608D

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Plazi

scientific name

Microdon aethiopicus Rondani, 1873
status

 

Microdon aethiopicus Rondani, 1873 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 282.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Sciotel [Sciotel ( Eritrea)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype ( MSNG): Bogos 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / Typus / aethiopicus Rond. , ♀ / Microdon aethiopicus ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Smith & Vockeroth 1973: 509); valid species, as Metadon aethiopicus ( Reemer & Ståhls 2013: 133) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1873e: 282) described Microdon aethiopicus from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by O. Beccari and O. Antinori. Guiglia (1957: 195) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 52) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG.

MSNG

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 'Giacomo Doria'

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Microdon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Microdon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Microdon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Metadon

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Microdon

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