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Rioxa nox Rondani 1875

Description

Rioxa nox Rondani, 1875

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 437.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo), Provincia Sarawak [Bona Fortuna Island, Sarawak Province, Borneo]” (Rondani 1875c: 421).

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (missing right wing and all legs except left mid- and hind-legs, left wing damaged) (MSNG): Borneo, Sarawak, 1865/1866, Coll. Doria / Typus / nox Rond. / Rioxa nox n° 30.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Rioxa lancelolata Walker, 1856 (Hardy 1977: 67, 1986, 122, Norrbom et al. 1999: 204).

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 437) described Rioxa nox from just the female sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 196), Hardy (1986: 122) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 57) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Tephritidae
Genus
Rioxa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Species
nox
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Rioxa nox Rondani, 1875 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Rondani, C. (1875 c) Muscaria exotica Musei Civici Januensis observata et distincta. Fragmentum III. Species in Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo), Provincia Sarawak, annis 1865 - 68, lectae a March. J. Doria et Doct. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 7, 421 - 464.
  • Hardy, D. E. (1977) Family Tephritidae. In: Delfinado, M. D. & Hardy, D. E. (Eds.), A catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Volume II. Suborder Brachycera through Division Aschiza, Suborder Cyclorrhapha. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, pp. 44 - 134.
  • Hardy, D. E. (1986) Fruit flies of the subtribe Acanthonevrina of Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck and Solomon Islands (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae: Acanthonevrini). Pacific Insects Monographs, 42, 1 - 191.
  • Norrbom, A. L., Carroll, L. E., Thompson, F. C., White, I. M. & Freidberg, A. (1999) Systematic database of names. In: Thompson, F. C. (Ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. Backhuis Publishers, Leiden, pp. 65 - 251.
  • Guiglia, D. (1957) I tipi di ditteri di Camillo Rondani e di altri autori appartenenti alle collezioni del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genov a, 69, 193 - 207.
  • Raineri, V. & Rey, A. (1996). Elenco di tipi di ditteri conservati nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale " G. Doria " di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale " Giacomo Doria ", 91, 27 - 64.