Cyphocera decorata Rondani, 1851

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 300

Cyphocera decorata Rondani, 1851

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1851: 361.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ regioni equatoriali dell’America, principalmente nelle vicinanze del Rio Napo [ Equatorial regions of ( South ) America, mainly in the vicinity of Napo River]” ( Rondani 1851: 357) .

TYPE MATERIAL: not found in this study.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Deopalpus decoratus ( Guimarães 1971: 76, O’Hara et al. 2020: 826).

REMARKS: Rondani (1851: 361) described Cyphocera decorata from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by Osculati (1850) during his journey through equatorial South America. Osculati (1850: 240) named but did not describe the species. Leonardi et al. (1995: 148) and Mazzotti (2011: 166) reported the Osculati collection in Milan as destroyed. We also did not find any material during this study. Rondani described this nominal species under the generic name “ Cyphocera ”, which is an “incorrect subsequent spelling of Cuphocera Macquart, 1845 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 68).