Myophthiria reduvioides Rondani 1875

Myophthiria reduvioides Rondani, 1875 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 464. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo), Provincia Sarawak [Bona Fortuna Island, Sarawak Province, Borneo]” (Rondani 1875c: 421). TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing hind-leg) (MSNG): Sarawak / Typus / Myiophthiria [sic !] reduvioides / reduvioides Rndn. / Myiophthiria reduvioides Rndn., Typus! PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (MZUF: Box 66): Myiophthyria [sic !] R. / reduvioides Rnd. / 3387 / Paratype reduvioides Rndn., ♂, T. C. Maa, [19]62. CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Maa 1977a: 411). REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 464) described Myophthiria reduvioides, without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being two specimens in the type series found in this study, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. He later (Rondani 1878a: 154) reported having some specimens: “ specimina aliqua observata [I observed some specimens]”. Guiglia (1957: 194) reported a “ holotype ” in the MSNG without knowing of an additional male in the MZUF, which brings the original type series to two specimens. In his original description Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single specimen therefore Guiglia’s “ holotype ” specimen must be considered as the lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). Maa (1963: 61) reported the “ lectotype ♂ (Genova Mus.) fixed by Guiglia (1957: 195) ” and considered the MZUF male as belonging to the type series. The additional male in the MZUF not examined by Guiglia is a paralectotype.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 123, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062