Pseudorhopalia mirandai d'Andretta & Carrera
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Carolina
name: Lamas, Carlos José Einicker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mydidae
Pseudorhopalia
Pseudorhopalia mirandai

description: Pseudorhopalia mirandai (d’Andretta & Carrera), 1951.
d’Andretta & Carrera, 1951: 7-9 (original description); 13, figure 1 (antena), figure 2 (posterior leg), figures 3-4 (wing), figure 5 (genitalia in lateral view), figure 6 (aedeagus complex in lateral view), figure 7 (part of 9th tergite in dorsal view), figures 8 (9th tergite and hypopygium in ventral view).
Type locality: Icó, Ceará, Brazil.
Holotype male with labels: (1) printed on red paper: “HOLOTIPO”; (2) handwritten on white paper: “ Ceará | Icó | V. C. Alves | III 39 [1939] [in vertical position]”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Rhopalia ɗ | mirandai. n. sp. | M. Carrera det & d‘Andretta ”.
Preservation: Pinned; specimen intact with undissected terminalia.
Allotype female with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Ceará | Limoeiro | V. C. Alves | III. 40 [1940] [in vertical position]”; (2) printed on red paper: “ALOTIPO”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Rhopalia Ψ | mirandai. n. sp. | d‘Andretta | M. Carrera det. 1948 ”.
Preservation: Pinned; spermathecae mounted on slides; Missing parts: right tibia of leg III and both antennae.
Paratype male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Ceará | Icó III 39 [1939] | V. C. Alves | III 39 [1939] [in vertical position]”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed on red paper: “111.187”.
Preservation: Pinned; genitalia on plastic vial pinned together with the specimen; Missing parts: both antennae and left wing.
Paratype male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Ceará | Russas | V. C. Alves | II 40 [1940] [in vertical position]”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “111.188” (4) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Rhopalia | mirandai. d’And & Carr [d’Andretta & Carrera] | M. Carrera det. 57 [1957]”.
Preservation: Pinned; right antenna and right leg III mounted on slide. Missing parts: left flagellum.
Paratype male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Ceará | Limoeiro | V. C. Alves | III. 40 [1940] [in vertical position]”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “111.190”.
Preservation: Pinned; left wing folded down in the apical portion; Missing parts: both antennae, left leg I and left tarsus of leg III.
Paratype male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Ceará | Icó | V. C. Alves | III 39 [1939] [in vertical position]”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “111.192” (4) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Rhopalia | mirandai. n. sp. | M. Carrera det, 51 [1951]”.
Preservation: Pinned; left wing and left antenna mounted on slides; Missing parts: right wing.
Paratype male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Ceará | Limoeiro | V. C. Alves | III. 40 [1940] [in vertical position]”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “111.193”.
Preservation: Pinned; right leg III, part of left leg II and left wing glued at the first label; Missing parts: genitalia and both flagellum, right leg III and left leg II.
Paratype male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Ceará | Icó | V. C. Alves | III 39 [1939] [in vertical position]”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed on white paper: “111.194”.
Preservation: Pinned; genitalia and part of abdomen mounted on slide; Missing parts: head.
Paratype male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Ceará | Russas | V. C. Alves | II 40 [1940] [in vertical position]”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Rhopalia ɗ | mirandai, n. sp | d’Andretta | & M. Carrera det. 1948 ”.
Preservation: Pinned; Missing parts: both flagellum.
description: Published as part of Yamaguchi, Carolina & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2009, A catalogue of the types of Asiloidea (Diptera) in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Part 1: Bombyliidae and Mydidae), pp. 35-52 in Zootaxa 2146 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.163509