Micropalpus frater Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 332-333

Micropalpus frater Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 65 (key), 67 (description).

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing fore- and left mid-legs; one missing left mid-leg; one male missing abdomen; one covered with mold, missing left fore-leg) (MZUF: Box 10): Micropalpus Mcq. / frater Rnd. , ♂ / 507; 1 ♀, syntype (abdomen partially eaten by dermestids, missing mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 10): Micropalpus Mcq. / frater Rnd. , ♀ / 507; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUF: Box E) : Micropalpus frater R., 181, ♀, Parma / 393 181; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right fore- and left mid-legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I) : Micropalpus frater R., 10 ♂ ♀ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. A-15 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa , Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani ; 1 ♀, syntype (missing left mid- and both hindlegs, abdomen eaten by dermestids) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I) : Micropalpus frater R., ♀ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. A-16 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa , Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( MSNPV: Box 97) : Micropalpus frater Rnd. , 62, ♂ ♀, Apenn. [= Apennines ] .

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Linnaemya frater ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 288, Pape et al. 1995: 25, Cerretti 2010: 319), valid species as Linnaemya (Homoeonychia) frater ( O’Hara et al. 2020: 634) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 67) described both sexes of Micropalpus frater without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, but presumably from more than one specimen because he stated: “ non infrequens [not rare]”. We found ten syntypes in this study. Rondani described this nominal species under the generic name “ Micropalpus ”, which is an “incorrect subsequent spelling of Micropalpis Macquart, 1834 ” ( Evenhuis et al. 2016: 85).