Hermetia nana Lindner, 1935

Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Couri, Márcia Souto & Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De, 2016, An illustrated catalogue of the types of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in the collection of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Zootaxa 4084 (3), pp. 361-376 : 366-367

Hermetia nana Lindner, 1935

( Figs 6–7 )

LINDNER, 1935: 410–411 (ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION).

Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo.

Syntype ♂ with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “S. Paulo [State of São Paulo] | V-1931 [v.1931]”; (2) printed on white paper: “8.104”; (3) printed on red paper: “EMBRAPA”.

Condition of type: only thorax pinned; head and entire abdomen glued on paper. Missing parts: antennae, fore legs, left mid and hind legs, and wings except for the extreme base of left one.

Additional note: there is no type label in this syntype specimen. However, we recognize it as a syntype because three of four syntypes specimens are from São Paulo, Brazil—presenting the same label information described below (Lindner, 1935: 419)—, of which two of them are deposited in MNRJ (1 ♂ and 1 ♀, as described here) and one female deposited in Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS) (Woodley 2001: 183).

Syntype ♀ with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “S. Paulo [State of São Paulo] | V-1931 [v.1931]”; (2) handwritten on white paper: “ Type | Lindner | 1935 [in vertical position]; (3) handwritten on white paper: “ Hermetia | nana | Lind. [Lindner]”; (4) printed on white paper: “8.104”; (5) printed on white paper: “8.103”; (6) printed on red paper: “ Typus ”; (7) printed on red paper: “EMBRAPA”; (8) printed on white paper: “ H. nana ”.

Condition of type: one antenna (left or right unknown) and left wing slide–mounted, kept with the specimen. Missing parts: one antenna (left or right unknown), last tarsomeres of left fore leg and terminal part of abdomen, including terminalia.

Figures

FIGURES 6 – 11. TYPE SPECIMENS, LATERAL AND DORSAL VIEW. 6 – 7. Hermetia nana LINDNER, FEMALE SYNTYPE. 8 – 9. Merosargus flaviventris (LINDNER), MALE HOLOTYPE. 10 – 11. Ptecticus palpalis LEAL, MALE HOLOTYPE. SCALE BAR, 1 MM.