Aphritis ignobilis Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 235-236

Aphritis ignobilis Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 73.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [ Brazil]” ( Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] ( Papavero 1973: 343). See Remarks.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (very moldy) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Aphritis a Phalacromya ): Aphritis ignobili Rnd. , Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11192.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Microdon ignobilis ( Thompson et al. 1976: 65) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 73) described both sexes of Aphritis ignobilis without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens, collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 32) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “651”. We also found one female syntype in this study. The male syntype has presumably been lost. Although Rondani (1848b: 63) only gave the type locality as “ Brasile ”, Papavero (1973: 343) gave a more accurate type locality based on a note in Spinola (1853) that said all specimens collected by Ghiliani in 1846 were collected in Belem, Pará, Brazil.