Oplachantha valdiviana Rondani 1863

Oplachantha valdiviana Rondani, 1863 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 88. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Valdivia [Valdivia (southern Chile)]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (dirty, covered with mold) (MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Stratiomidei - Gen. Hermethia a Beris): Oplachantha valdiviana Rnd., Valdivia / M. Zool. N° 10957. CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Antissa valdiviana (James 1973: 24); valid species, as Cyanauges validivianus (Woodley 2001: 77). REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 88) described Oplachantha valdiviana from a single female: “ exemplar unicum foemineum [a single female specimen]”, labeled valdivianus by R.A. Philippi, to whom Rondani attributed the name. Costa (1866: 39) listed a single MZUN specimen numbered “929”.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 pages 231-232, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062