Epalpus rostratus Rondani 1868

Epalpus rostratus Rondani, 1868 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868b: 25. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Prov. Mendoza (Portezuelo de Bonilla) [Mendoza Province (Portezuelo de Bonilla) (Argentina)]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (covered with mold) (MZUF: Box 72): Epalpus rostratus Rnd., Am. Mer. [= South America] / [no identification number]. CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Guimarães 1971: 65, O’Hara et al. 2020: 832). REMARKS: Rondani (1868b: 25) described Epalpus rostratu s from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens, from material received from P. Strobel. 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