Blepharepium luridum Rondani 1848

Blepharepium luridum Rondani, 1848 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 89. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [Brazil]” (Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] (Papavero 1973: 343). See Remarks. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (MZUN: Box Asilidei A 05, 04): Blepharepium luridum Rnd., Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11013. CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Martin & Papavero 1970: 28, Papavero 2009: 67). REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 89) described Blepharepium luridum, without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani and received from G. Mussino. Costa (1866: 35) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “780”. We also found one syntype in this study. Although Rondani (1848b: 63) only gave the type locality as “ Brasile ”, Papavero (1973: 343) gave a more accurate type locality based on a note in Spinola (1853) that said all specimens collected by Ghiliani in 1846 were collected in Belem, Pará, Brazil.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 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062