Ferdinandea aurea Rondani, 1844

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 252

Ferdinandea aurea Rondani, 1844

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1844b: 198.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 3 ♂♂, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 5): Chrysochlamis Rnd. / aurea Rndn. , ♂ / 244; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing left fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 5): Chrysochlamis Rnd. / aurea Rndn. , ♀ / 244; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box B): Chrysochlamis aurea Rndn. , 85, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 85; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right fore- and hindlegs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Chrysochlamys aurea Rnd. ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 4, posiz. A-5 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 99): Chrysochlamis aurea Rndn. , ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUB: Box 321): 20 90 / Chrysochlamis aurea Rond. , ex a. parmensi; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUB: Box 321): 20 91 / Chrysochlamis aurea Rond. , ex a. parmensi / aurea Rndn. , ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype ( OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll.: Box 39): syntype / C. aurea coll. Big / C. aurea Ex Coll. Bigot / C. aurea ♀ G. Ferdinandea Rond. Europa, Rond.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Peck 1988: 122, Belcari et al. 1995a: 11).

REMARKS: Rondani (1844b: 198) described Ferdinandea aurea without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths, but presumably from more than one specimen because he stated: “ frequens [common]”. We found 11 syntypes in this study.