Meromacrus ghilianii Rondani, 1848

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 259

Meromacrus ghilianii Rondani, 1848

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 71.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Dolichomerus a Meromacrus ): Meromacrus ghiliani [sic!] Rnd., Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11254 / ♂.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Thompson et al. 1976: 112).

REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 71) described Meromacrus ghilianii from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 32) listed a single MZUN specimen (as Meromacrus ghiliani [sic!]) numbered “634”. We also found one syntype in this study. 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.