Tabanus aspahanicus Rondani 1873

Tabanus aspahanicus Rondani, 1873 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873f: 300. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Persia Sept. [Northern Persia]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (MSNG): Persia settent. [northern Persia], 1862–63, Coll. G. Doria / typus / aspahanicus Rond. / Tabanus aspahanicus Rondani, 29.3.09 / Tabanus aspahanicus Rondani, 1873, n. sp. CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Tabanus spectabilis Loew, 1858 (Chvála 1988: 155). REMARKS: Rondani (1873f: 300) described Tabanus aspahanicus from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by G. Doria. Guiglia (1957: 196) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 54) reported the holotype (♂) in the MSNG.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 284, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062