Homalomya schembrii Rondani, 1866

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 114

Homalomya schembrii Rondani, 1866

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 124 (key), 127 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ ab insula Melita … in colle agri parmensis [ Malta Island … Parmese hill ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♀♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 25): Homalomyia B.é Myiantha [sic!] Rnd. / schembrii Rnd. , ♀, Melita / 1332 .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Euryomma peregrinum ( Meigen, 1826) ( Pont 1986a: 42, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 8).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 127) described Homalomya schembrii from three females: “ Ab insula Melita foeminas duas misit doct. Schembri et specimen unicum sexus ejiusdem postea inveni in colle agro parmensis [Dr. Schembri sent me two females from Malta Island … and later I found a single specimen of the same sex on a Parmese hill]”. In a later publication Rondani (1877c: 60) did not mention the Parmese female: “ mas a me non abservatus, et exemplaria duo tantum possideo sexus faeminei a Doct. Schembri missa ex Insula Melita [I never observed the male, I have two female specimens sent by Dr. Schembri from Malta Island]”. Hennig (1961: 226) reported an additional female in the MRSN but we did not find it. We found just two female syntypes in this study. This nominal species was described under the generic name Homalomya , which is an “unjustified emendation of Homalomyia Bouché, 1834 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 97) and that Rondani (1866a: 123; 1877c: 42) considered as a senior synonym of Myantha Rondani, 1856 .