Myobia ryctina Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 337

Myobia ryctina Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 49 (key), 51 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in montuosis, … in planitie agri parmensis [ Parmese mountains ( Italy), … (and) plains]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing right fore- and mid-legs; one missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 15): Myobia Desv. / ryctina Rnd. , ♂ / 789; 3 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing fore- and mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 15): Myobia Desv. / ryctina Rnd. , ♀ / 789; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box D): Myobia ryctina Rnd. , 292, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 292; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Myobia ryctina Rnd. 112 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-4 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Myobia ryctina Rnd. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-5 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUB: Box 327): 23 32 / Myobia ryctina Rond. , ex a. parmensi / ryctina Rndn. , ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 96): Myobia ryctina Rndn. , 183, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 166.5): syntype / Type / M. ryctina Ex. Coll. Big. / Bithia demotica (Egger, 1861) det. Herting / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachininae Bithia demotica (Egger, 1861) , Palaearctic; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right midleg) ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 166.5): syntype / Rondani Typ. / Myobia ryctina Rd / sec. typ. Rondanii / M. ryctina Ex. Coll. Kow. / Bithia demotica (Egger, 1861) det. Herting / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachininae Bithia demotica (Egger, 1861) , Palaearctic.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Bithia demotica (Egger 1861) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 339) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 51) described both sexes of Myobia ryctina without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, but from more than one specimen because he wrote: “ Frequens in montuosis, rara in planitie [Common in mountains, rare in plains]”. We found 15 syntypes in this study.