Melophagus rupicaprinus Rondani 1879

Melophagus rupicaprinus Rondani, 1879 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1879: 12. TYPE LOCALITY: Rondani gave no type locality in his original description. Guiglia (1957: 195) gave “ Alpi occidental. [= western Alps]” as the type locality probably because the species was collected by Ghiliani on Rupicapra rupicapra (Linnaeus, 1758), which is present on the Alps. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (MSNG): Antilope rupicapra D. Ghiliani / Typus / rupicaprinus Rndn. / Melophagus rupicaprinus Rndn., Typus! CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Soós & Hůrka 1986: 226, Pape et al. 1995: 8). REMARKS: Rondani (1879: 12) described Melophagus rupicaprinus from a single specimen: “ Exemplar unicum observavi [I observed a single specimen]”. Guiglia (1957: 196) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 34) 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 122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062