Hyalomya bonapartea Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 322

Hyalomya bonapartea Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861b: 212 (key), 217 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus ditionis parmensis [ Parmese hills ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 5 ♂♂, syntypes (two pinned together; one covered with mold, missing left mid- and both hind-legs), 4 ♀♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 17): Alophora Desv. / bonapartea Rnd. / 927; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box C): Hyalomyia [sic!] bonapartea R., 335, ♂, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 335; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUF: Box C): Hyalomyia [sic!] bonapartea R., 336, ♀, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 336; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Hyalomya bonapartea R. 156 ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. E-19 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 98): Hyalomyia [sic!] bonapartea Rnd. 442, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype (missing head) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Hyalomya bonapartea R. 157 ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. F-1 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUB: Box 328): 23 82 / Alophora bonapartea Rond. , ex a. parmensi / bonapartea Rndn. , ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUB: Box 328): bonapartea Rndn. , ♂ ♀, Parma / 23 83; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUB: Box 328): 23 84 / bonapartea Rndn. , ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUB: Box 328): 23 85 / bonapartea Rndn. , ♂ ♀, Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Phasia aurigera (Egger, 1860) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 409) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861b: 217) described both sexes of Hyalomya bonapartea 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 raro [not rare]”. We found 18 syntypes in this study.