Sphixea doriae Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 268

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Sphixea doriae Rondani, 1875 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 422.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo) , Provincia Sarawak [ Bona Fortuna Island , Sarawak Province, Borneo]” ( Rondani 1875c: 421) .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MSNG): Sarawak / typus / doriae Rond. / Sphixea doriae n° 3.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Milesia doriae ( Knutson et al. 1975: 363) View in CoL ; junior synonym of Milesia diardi Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1863 ( Hippa 1990: 184) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 422) described Sphixea doriae from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 196), Raineri & Rey (1996: 52) and Hippa (1990: 186) reported the holotype (♂) in the MSNG.