Campogaster debilis Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 291-292

Campogaster debilis Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 149 (key), 150 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensis … pedemontanum [ Parmese hills … Piedmont ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 5 ♀♀ (only one of them is a syntype but is not labeled as such) ( MRSN) with the following labels: 1 ♀, 12.64 / C. debilis Rndn., Torino [ Turin (Piedmont)], ♀ ; 1 ♀ , 9.64 / C. debilis Rndn., Torino [ Turin (Piedmont)], ♀ ; 1 ♀ , 11.67 / C. debilis Rndn., Torino [ Turin (Piedmont)], ♀ ; 1 ♀ , 14.64 / C. debilis Rndn., Torino [ Turin (Piedmont)], ♀ ; 1 ♀ , 6.65 / C. debilis Rndn., Torino , ♀.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Microsoma exigua ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 398) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 150) described Campogaster debilis from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length: “ Foeminas tantum, …, in collibus agri parmensis legi … et exemplar sexus ejusdem pedemontanum a Prof. Bellardi accepi [I collected only females in Parmese hills, … and I received one specimen of the same sex from Piedmont by Prof. Bellardi]”. We did not find any females from Parmese hills, we found five females labeled “ Torino ” [Turin] in the MRSN but, according to the original description, there is just one specimen from Piedmont. We are unable to single out the Piedmont female upon which Rondani based his description and we leave the recognition of this latter syntype to a future specialist. A MSNC male is not included in the type series because of its sex .