Gonia cilipeda Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 319

Gonia cilipeda Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 31 (key), 35 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus ditionis parmensis … in insula Melita [Parmese hills ( Italy) … Malta Island]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 9): Gonia Mgn / cilipeda Rnd., App. [= Apennines], Sicilia / 467; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Gonia cilipeda Rnd. 378 Apenn. [= Apennines] [Parmense] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. A-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Gonia bimaculata Wiedemann, 1819 ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 258).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 35) described Gonia cilipeda from two males and two females: “ Exemplaria duo mascula et unum foemina … a me capta fuerunt, et alteram foeminam speciei a D. Schembri accepi [two male specimens and one female … were collected by me, and I received another female of the species from D. Schembri]”. We found just three syntypes in this study: two males in the MZUF and one female in the MSNC. The additional female syntype is presumed lost. Not included in the MZUF type series are an additional two specimens: one numbered “467” and dated “8.4.[18]77”, which is subsequent to the original description, and a female numbered “467” from “ Sicilia ” [= Sicily], which is not the type locality .