Mintho lacera Rondani, 1847

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 334-335

Mintho lacera Rondani, 1847

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1847c: 70.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Italia [ Italy]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♂♂, syntypes (one covered with mold, missing left fore- and mid-legs; one missing right midleg; one covered with mold, missing head, left fore- and right hind-legs; one missing head and right fore-leg) (MZUF: Box 16): Mintho Desv. / lacera Rnd. , ♂ / 877; 3 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing mid-legs; one missing right fore- and mid-legs) (MZUF: Box 16): Mintho Desv. / lacera Rnd. , ♀ / 877; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid-leg), 1 ♀, syntype (missing left mid-leg) (MZUF: Box C): Mintho lacera Rnd. , 325, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 325; 1 ♂, syntype (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Mintho lacera Rnd. 147 ♂ 2 Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. E-4 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype (missing head, thorax partially eaten by dermestids, missing left fore- and mid-legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Mintho lacera Rnd. ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. E-5 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (MSNPV: Box 96): Mintho lacera Rnd. , 428, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype (MZUB: Box 327): 23 57 / Mintho lacera Rond. , ex a. pedemontano / lacera Rndn. , Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Mintho rufiventris ( Fallén, 1817) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 346) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1847c: 70) included Mintho lacera as a new species in a key but did not provide a detailed description, number, sex or length of the specimens. He later ( Rondani 1861e: 135) redescribed this nominal species. We found 13 syntypes in this study.