Merodon subfasciatus Rondani 1845

Merodon subfasciatus Rondani, 1845 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1845f: 257 (key), 261 (description). TYPE LOCALITY: “ Sicilia [Sicily (Italy)]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (missing head and right fore-leg, thorax partially eaten by dermestids, terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) (MZUF: Box 2): Merodon Fb. Latr. / subfasciatus Rnd., ♂, Sicil. / 59 / Merodon cinereus Fabr., det. Hurkmans, 1987. CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Merodon cinereus (Fabricius, 1794) (Peck 1988: 168, Belcari et al. 1995a: 16). REMARKS: Rondani (1845f: 261) described Merodon subfasciatus from a single male: “ è una specie che formo sopra un solo individuo … Questo esemplare è maschio [I described this species from a single specimen … This specimen is a male]”, received from M. Spinola. The MZUF contains an additional female numbered “59” received later from L. Bellardi (Rondani 1857: 58).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 258, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062