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Phytomyptera halidayana Rondani 1872

Description

Phytomyptera halidayana Rondani, 1872

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1872b: 108.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Sicilia [Sicily (Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing left fore- and right hind-legs, double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin) (MZUF: Box 9): Phytomyptera Rnd. / halidayana Rnd. / Sicil. / 450.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Thrixion aberrans (Schiner 1861) (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 174).

REMARKS: Rondani (1872b: 108) described Phytomyptera halidayana, without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material received from A.H. Haliday. We found one syntype in this study.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Phytomyptera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Species
halidayana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Phytomyptera halidayana Rondani, 1872 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.
  • Rondani, C. (1872 b) Nuova specie del genere Phytomyptera Rndn. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 4 (1), 107 - 108.