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Brachicoma adolescens Rondani 1859

Description

Brachicoma adolescens Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 204.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in toto agri parmensi [all the Parmese territory (Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing right hind-leg) (MZUF. Box 14): Brachicoma Rnd. / devia Fall., ♂ / 695 / lectotype ♂ Brachicoma adolescens Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986 / Brachicoma devia (Fll.), T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 1 ♀, paralectotype (mis-sexed as a male) (MZUF: Box 14): Brachicoma Rnd. / devia Fall., ♂ [sic !] / 695 / paralectotype; 4 ♀♀, paralectotypes (one missing left fore-, left mid-, right mid-legs and right hind-tarsi; one missing right fore-leg; one missing left mid-leg) (MZUF: Box 14): Brachicoma Rnd. / devia Fall., ♀ / 695 / paralectotype.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Brachicoma devia (Fallén, 1820) (Verves 1986: 114, Pape 1988: 5, 1996: 162).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 204) described Brachicoma adolescens without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens. Pape (1988: 4) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (1 ♀ mis-sexed as a male, 4 ♀♀).

Notes

Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sarcophagidae
Genus
Brachicoma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Species
adolescens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Brachicoma adolescens Rondani, 1859 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Fallen, C. F. (1820) Opomyzides. In: Fallen, C. F., Diptera Sveciae. Litteris Berlingianis, Lundae [= Lund], pp. 1 - 12.
  • Verves, Y. G. (1986) Family Sarcophagidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 12. Calliphoridae - Sarcophagidae. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam & Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 57 - 193.
  • Pape, T. (1988) A revision of the Palaearctic Sarcophagidae (Diptera) described by C. Rondani. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Series A (Biology), 416, 1 - 22.
  • Pape, T. (1996) Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the world (Insecta: Diptera). Memoirs on Entomology, International, 8, 1 - 558.
  • Rondani, C. (1859 b) Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. Vol: III. Species italicae ordinis dipterorum in genera characteribus definita, ordinatim collectae, methodo analitica distinctae, et novis vel minus cognitis descriptis. Pars secunda: Muscidae, Siphoninae et (partim) Tachininae. A. Stocchi, Parmae [= Parma], 243 + [1] p., 1 pl.