Ortalis immaculata Rondani, 1869

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 387-388

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1

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scientific name

Ortalis immaculata Rondani, 1869
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Ortalis immaculata Rondani, 1869

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1869a: 30 (key), 31 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in planitie parmensi … in Pedemontio [ Parmese plains … Piedmont ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (partially eaten by dermestids, missing fore- and left hind-legs) (MZUF: Box 31): Ortalis Fall. / immaculata Rndn. , Parma / 1618 / Lectotypus ♂, Ortalis immaculata Rnd. , design. Á. Soós, 1978 / Otites immaculata Rond. , ♂, det. Á. Soós, 1978.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (partially eaten by dermestids, terminalia on a slide) (MZUF: Box 31): Ortalis Fall. / immaculata Rndn. , Parma / 1618 / Paralectotypus ♂, Ortalis immaculata Rnd. , design. Á. Soós, 1978; 1 ♀ (missing left fore-leg) (MZUF: Box 31): Ortalis Fall. / immaculata Rndn. , Parma / 1618 / Paralectotypus ♀, Otites immaculata Rnd. , design. Á. Soós, 1978.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (MRSN): 16 67 / 43 / Ortalis Fall. immaculata Rond., Bra [= Bra (Piedmont)], ♂; 1 ♀ (MRSN): 42 / Ortalis Fall. immaculata Rond., Bra [= Bra (Piedmont)].

SLIDE: Genitalia on slide n° 25 (Box Diptera Rondani 3): Ortalis immaculata Rnd., Soós des., 1978, n. 1618, Mus. La Specola Firenze.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Otites immaculata ( Soós 1984c: 48, Belcari et al. 1995b: 6).

REMARKS: Rondani (1869a: 31) described Ortalis immaculata without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens he had collected and also received from L. Bellardi. Soós (1982a: 135) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (1 ♂, 1 ♀) but did not mention an additional two specimens in the MRSN (both of these additional specimens are paralectotypes).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Platystomatidae

Genus

Ortalis

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