Sarcophaga filia Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 200-201

Sarcophaga filia Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861g: 379 (key), 385 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ In Italia media et boreali [central and boreal (= northern) Italy]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing right mid-leg, terminalia glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / filia Rnd. , ♂ / 1006 / = S. filia sec. Typ. Pand. det. Böttcher / lectotype ♂, S. filia Rond., T. Pape det., 1986 / Heteronychia filia Rondani, T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (missing right mid-leg, terminalia glued to the paralectotype label pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / filia Rnd. , ♂ / 1006 / S. noverca ♂ Rnd., Böttcher / paralectotype; 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / filia Rnd. , ♂ / 1006 / S. sinuata s. Typ. ♂ Meig., Paris, det. Böttcher / paralectotype; 1 ♀ (missing right fore- and mid-legs ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / filia Rnd. , ♀ / 1006 / S. filia ♀ Rnd., Pand. det. Böttcher / paralectotype; 2 ♀♀ (partially covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / filia Rnd. , ♀ / 1006 / paralectotype.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (missing left mid-leg) (MZUF: Box C): Sarcophaga filia Rnd. , 365, ♂, Parma / 393 365; 1 ♂ (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sarcophaga filia Rndn. ♂ 2 390 Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. B-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂ (missing left mid-leg) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sarcophaga filia Rndn. ♂ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. B-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Heteronychia filia ( Verves 1986: 154, Povolný & Verves 1997: 184); valid species, as Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) filia ( Pape 1988: 8, 1996: 327, Pape et al. 1995: 14, Whitmore 2011: 32; Krčmar et al. 2019: 129).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861g: 385) described both sexes of Sarcophaga filia without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths. In his redescription (1862d: 105) Rondani specified the type locality: “ In agro Parmensi … In Etruri a [Parmese territory … Etruria (= Tuscany)]”. Pape (1988:8) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀) but did not mention an additional three males: one in the MZUF and two in the MSNC (all are paralectotypes).