Dinera rufifrons Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 303

Dinera rufifrons Rondani, 1862

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 66 (key), 67 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in toto agro parmensi et in aliis Italiae plagis etiam … In Etruria …, in Pedemontio …, in Insubria [in all the Parmese territory and other parts of Italy … Etruria (= Tuscany) … Piedmont … Insubria (= Lombardy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♂♂, syntypes (one covered with mold; one covered with mold, thorax partially eaten by dermestids and missing right hind-leg; one missing left fore- and hind-legs; one covered with mold and missing right mid- and both hind-legs), 4 ♀♀, syntypes (two covered with mold and missing left mid- and right hind-legs; one covered with mold and missing right fore- and left mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 18): Dinera Desv. / rufifrons Rnd. / 976; 4 ♀♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 18): Dinera Desv. / rufifrons Rnd. , ♀ / 976; 1 ♀, syntype (missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 18): Dinera Desv. / rufifrons Rnd. , ♀ / 976 / Dexia grisescens Fall. ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box C): Dinera Desv. rufifrons R., 352, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 352; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right fore- and mid-legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Dinera Desv. rufifrons Rnd. 176 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. G-16 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (in poor condition, only thorax with right fore-, both mid-legs and right wing remain) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Dinera rufifrons Rnd. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. G-17 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Dinera grisescens ( Fallén, 1817) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 362) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1862d: 67) described Dinera rufifrons , without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens he had collected and also received from F.M. Piccioli, G. Mussino, L. Bellardi, D’Arco and the Villa brothers. We found 17 syntypes in this study.