Dasipogon bombimorpha Rondani 1851

Dasipogon bombimorpha Rondani, 1851 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1851: 368. TYPE LOCALITY: “ regioni equatoriali dell’America, principalmente nelle vicinanze del Rio Napo [Equatorial regions of (South) America, mainly in the vicinity of Napo River]” (Rondani 1851: 357). TYPE MATERIAL: not found in this study. CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Lastaurus bombimorpha (Martin & Papavero 1970: 29); junior synonym of Lastaurus fallax (Macquart, 1846) (Papavero 2009: 73). REMARKS: Rondani (1851: 368) described Dasipogon bombimorpha from just the female sex, giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by Osculati (1850) during his journey through equatorial South America. Osculati (1850: 240) named but did not describe the species. Leonardi et al. (1995: 148) and Mazzotti (2011: 166) reported the Osculati collection in Milan as destroyed. We also did not find any material during this study. Rondani described this nominal species under the generic name Dasipogon, which is a misspelling of Dasypogon Meigen, 1803 or subsequent usage of Dasipogon Dufour, 1833 (O’Hara et al. 2011: 71).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 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062