Catalogue of Bibionidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) types housed in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

Following a recommendation of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, this paper provides a catalogue of the type specimens of Bibionidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) held in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (MZUSP). Label data and the condition of 21 type specimens (two holotypes and 19 paratypes) of two Neotropical species is provided. Photographs of the male terminalia of the holotypes are also presented.

Contribution to the knowledge of the Family Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera)

“…The method used to prepare this mini review was Marchiori 2021 methodology [14]. Plecia plagiata Wiedemann, 1824 (Figure 32).…”

Notes on presumed Neotropical records and species of Hesperinus Walker, 1848 (Diptera: Bibionidae)

“…Hardy was a major contributor to Bibionidae taxonomy (evenHuis & tHomPson 2004), publishing catalogs (Hardy 1959(Hardy , 1966 that were crucial for research on the Neotropical fauna of Diptera. Consequently, some studies, such as FalasCHi et al (2018), may have relied on Hardy's catalogs, trusting his scientific authority. However, they may have done so without conducting a comprehensive literature review, thereby overlooking that H. conjungens was reclassified under Plecia shortly after the 1966 catalog's publication by the same author.…”

Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

“…MZUSP holdings account for over 10 million animal specimens, with approximately seven thousand primary types (Ulysséa et al, 2015). A series of catalogues have been recently published to document this material (e.g., Valim, 2009;Onody et al, 2014;Falaschi et al, 2016Falaschi et al, , 2018Santos et al, 2017). The entomology collection at MZUSP houses approximately 2.2 million mounted specimens with an additional 2.5 million that await to be processed (Taddei et al, 1999;Ferreira et al, 2016).…”