Ocyptera tincticornis Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 339

Ocyptera tincticornis Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861c: 273 (key), 276 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Italia boreali et media [in boreal (= northern) and central Italy]” (Rondani 1861: 276); Rondani (1861e: 129) gave “ in agro parmensi … in Etruria … et in pedemontio [Parmese territory … Etruria (= Tuscany) … and Piedmont ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♂♂, syntypes (two covered with mold; one missing left fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 16): Ocyptera Fab. / tincticornis Rnd. , ♂ / 872; 3 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 16): Ocyptera Fab. / tincticornis Rnd. , ♀ / 872; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (pinned together, one missing right mid-leg, the other missing right wing) ( MZUF: Box 16): Ocyptera Fab. / tincticornis Rnd. / 872; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box C): Ocyptera tinticornis R., 323, Parma / 393 323; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Ocyptera Latr. tincticornis R. 144 ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. D-18 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 98): Ocyptera tinticornis Rn. , 424, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUB: Box 327): Ocyptera tincticornis Rond. , ex a. pedemontano [= from Piedmont] / tincticornis Rndn.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Cylindromyia pilipes ( Loew, 1844) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 429) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861c: 276) described Ocyptera tincticornis without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths. He later ( Rondani 1861e: 129) stated having both sexes that he had collected and that he had also received from F.M. Piccioli and L. Bellardi. We found 13 syntypes in this study.