Callicera roserii Rondani, 1844

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 237-238

Callicera roserii Rondani, 1844

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1844a: 64 (key), 65 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus sub-apenninis Italiae centralis [sub-Apennine hills of central Italy]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype, ( MZUF: Box 7): Callicera Mgn / roserii Rnd. , ♀ / 364 / ♀ / lectotype / lectotype Callicera roserii Rnd. , det. M. C. D. Speight , 1990 / Neotype / Neotype Callicera aurata (Rossi) , det. M.C. D. Speight, 1990.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 3 ♀♀ (one with head in a plastic vial on a pin next to the specimen) ( MZUF: Box 7) : Callicera roserii Rnd. , ♀. / 364.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Peck 1988: 126); junior synonym of Callicera aurata ( Rossi, 1790) ( Speight 1991: 5, Belcari et al. 1995a: 13).

REMARKS: Rondani (1844a: 65) described Callicera roserii from four females, the male is unknown: “ foeminas quatuor … mas nunquam inventus [four females … the male never found]”. Rondani (1843g: 375) proposed Callicera roserii as new but without any description. Speight (1991: 5, 8) designated a lectotype (♀) and paralectotypes (3 ♀♀) for Callicera roserii and concurrently designated the lectotype for Callicera roserii as the neotype for Callicera aurata ( Rossi, 1790) . An additional female in the MZUB (Box 322) is not part of the type series.