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Milesia digitata Rondani 1865

Description

Milesia digitata Rondani, 1865

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1865a: 132.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Apennino [Apennines (Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing left hind-leg, abdomen partially eaten by dermestids) (MZUF: Box 3): Milesia Ltr. Spylomyia [sic!] Mgn / digitata Rndn., ♂ / 94 / lectotype ♂, Spilomyia digitata (Rondani, 1865), design. J. van Steenis, 1998.

PARALECTOTYPE EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (covered with mold, missing left fore- and both hind-legs, terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) (MZUF: Box 3): Milesia Ltr. Spylomyia [sic!] Mgn / digitata Rndn., ♂ / 94.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll.: Box 39): syntype / Type / M. digitata Ex. Coll. Bigot / M. digitata ♂ Italia, Rond.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Spilomyia digitata (Peck 1988: 213, Belcari et al. 1995a: 18, Steenis 2000: 147).

REMARKS: Rondani (1865a: 132) described Milesia digitata from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens. Steenis (2000: 147) incorrectly stated that Rondani described both sexes of Spilomyia digitata and designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (1 ♂, 2 ♀♀) in the MZUF. He did not mention an additional male in the OUMNH (this additional specimen is a paralectotype). The two MZUF females numbered “94”, and considered by Steenis (2000: 147) as paralectotypes, do not belong to the type series because of their sex.

Notes

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 260, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MZUF , OUMNH
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Milesia
Species
digitata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Milesia digitata Rondani, 1865 sec. Sforzi & Sommaggio, 2021

References

  • Peck, L. V. (1988) Family Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 8. Syrphidae - Conopidae. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam & Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 11 - 230.
  • Belcari, A., Daccordi, M., Kozanek, M., Munari, L., Raspi, A. & Rivosecchi, L. (1995 a) Diptera Platypezoidea, Syrphoidea. In: Minelli, A., Ruffo, S. & La Posta, S. (Eds.), Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana. 70. Calderini, Bologna, pp. 1 - 25.
  • Steenis, J. van (2000) The west-Palaearctic species of Spilomyia Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 73, 143 - 168.
  • Rondani, C. (1865 a) Diptera italica non vel minus cognita descripta vel annotata observationibus nonnullis additis. Fasc. I. Oestridae - Syrphidae - Conopidae. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali, 8, 127 - 146.