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Exorista glirina Rondani 1859

Description

Exorista glirina Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 117 (key), 129 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus ditionis parmensis [Parmese hills (Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (missing fore-legs) (MZUF: Box 13): Exorista Mgn / glirina Rnd., ♂ [sic !] / 625.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Phebellia glirina (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 185, Pape et al. 1995: 19, Cerretti 2010: 184, O’Hara et al. 2020: 343).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 129) described Exorista glirina from a single female: “ Numquam mares, et foeminam unicam legi [I never collected males, I collected a single female]”. Herting (1969: 195) reported a single female in the MZUF but he did not consider it as a type because of its poor condition and not determinable. Herting incorrectly designated a NHMW male sent to Bergenstamm by Rondani as the lectotype. The MZUF specimen numbered “625” is a female, not a male as labeled.

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 314, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MZUF
Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Exorista
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Species
glirina
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Exorista glirina Rondani, 1859 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Herting, B. & Dely-Draskovits, A. (1993) Family Tachinidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 13. Anthomyiidae - Tachinidae. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, pp. 118 - 458.
  • Pape, T., Richter, V., Rivosecchi, L. & Rognes, K. (1995) Diptera Hippoboscoidea, Oestroidea. In: Minelli, A., Ruffo, S. & La Posta, S. (Eds.), Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana. 78. Calderini, Bologna, pp. 1 - 36.
  • Cerretti, P. (2010) I tachinidi della fauna italiana (Diptera Tachinidae), con chiave interattiva dei generi ovest - paleartici. Volume I, Cierre Edizioni, Verona, 573 pp.
  • O'Hara, J. E., Henderson, S. J. & Wood, D. M. (2020) Preliminary checklist of the Tachinidae of the world. Version 2. 0. PDF document. Available from: http: // www. nadsdiptera. org / Tach / WorldTachs / Checklist / Worldchecklist. html (accessed 30 August 2020)
  • 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.
  • Herting, B. (1969) Notes on European Tachinidae (Dipt.) described by Rondani (1856 - 1868). Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 48 (2), 189 - 204.