Volucella transatlantica Rondani, 1863

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 275-276

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4981929

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scientific name

Volucella transatlantica Rondani, 1863
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Volucella transatlantica Rondani, 1863

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 4.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ America merid. [South America]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Aphritis a Phalacromya ): Volucella transatlantica Rnd., Amer. mer. [= South America] / M. Zool. N° 11205 / ♂; 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold) ( MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Aphritis a Phalacromya ): ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Copestylum dispar ( Macquart, 1846) ( Thompson et al. 1976: 75) View in CoL .

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 4) described Volucella transatlantica , providing specific characters for the male and female, from an unspecified number of specimens received from M. Spinola. Costa (1866: 31) listed two MZUN specimens numbered “615”. We also found two syntypes in this study.

MZUN

Museo Zoologico di Universita degli Studi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Volucella

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Copestylum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Volucella

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