Epalpus rubripilus Rondani 1850

Epalpus rubripilus Rondani, 1850 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1850c: 169. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Venezuela ”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (not a male as Rondani indicated) (MRSN: Box 1754): Epalpus rubripilus Rndn., ♀, Venezuela / Museo di Zoologia della Università Torino, Italia. CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Trichosaundersia rubripila (Guimarães 1971:73, O’Hara et al. 2020: 885). REMARKS: Rondani (1850c: 169) described Epalpus rubripilus from just the male sex, apparently mis-sexing it, without specifying the number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material received from E. Truqui. We found one syntype in this study.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 308, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062