Sarcophaga adolescens Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 197

Sarcophaga adolescens Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861g: 382 (key), 388 (description).

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / adolescens Rnd. / 1026 bis / S. rostrata Pandellé, Böttcher / lectotype ♂, Sarcophaga adolescens Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986 / Pierretia socrus (Rnd.) , T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / adolescens Rnd. / 1026 bis / S. spinosa ♂ Villen., n. type, det. Böttcher, spec. rarissima [very rare species] / paralectotype; 1 ♂ (moldy, right mid-leg glued to the numbered cardboard stage below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / adolescens Rnd. / 1026 bis / S. fertoni ♂ Villen. , n. type, det. Böttcher / paralectotype.

CURRENT STATUS: doubtful species of Sarcophaginae ( Verves 1986: 192) ; junior synonym of Sarcophaga (Myorhina) socrus Rondani, 1860 ( Pape 1988: 5, 1996: 365).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861g: 388) described Sarcophaga adolescens from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being three specimens in the type series found in this study. Pape (1988: 5) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (2 ♂♂) and stated: “ Böttcher (1913: 186) listed three additional specimens (2 ♂, 1 ♀) under the name adolescens , which he identified as Sarcophaga fertoni Villeneuve, 1911 , Sarcophaga spinosa Villeneuve, 1911 and Blaesoxipha ungulata ( Pandellé, 1896) , the latter erroneously listed as a male on p. 186, correctly sexed as a female on p. 187. As Rondani’s original description of Sarcophaga adolescens included males only, I prefer to consider the female of B. ungulata a later addition, and only the two males have been labeled by me as paralectotype ”.