Diopsis beccarii Rondani, 1873

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 102

Diopsis beccarii Rondani, 1873

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 289.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 72): [no identification number] / Exechopsis beccarii R / Bogos, 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari; 47 ♂♂ ♀♀, syntypes (glued to cardboard stages on nine pins as follows: (1) 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀; (2) 2 ♂♂, 3♀♀; (3) 4 ♂♂, 2♀♀; (4) 4 ♂♂, 3 ♀; (5) 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀; (6) 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀; (7) 5 ♂♂; (8) 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀; (9) 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀) ( MSNG): Bogos 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / Typus / beccarii Rond. / Syntypus Diopsis beccarii Rondani, 1873 ; 10 ♂♂, ♀♀, syntypes (glued to cardboard stages on two pins as follows: (1) 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀; (2) 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀) ( MSNG): Bogos 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / Syntypus Diopsis beccarii Rondani, 1873 .

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Sphyracephala beccarii ( Cogan & Shillito 1980: 584) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1873e: 289) described Diopsis beccarii without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material collected by O. Beccari and O. Antinori. Rondani did not select a holotype in his original description. Guiglia (1957: 194) reported “ Tipo e numerosi cotipi [Type and many cotypes]” in the MSNG. Raineri & Rey (1996: 35) reported “Typus, 2 Cotypi [Type, 2 Cotypes]”. None of these authors unambiguously identified a single specimen from the type series to serve as the namebearing type and therefore did not publish a lectotype designation (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.5). We found 58 syntypes in this study.