Ocyptera alpestris Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 338

Ocyptera alpestris Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861c: 272 (key), 274 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Italia boreali [boreal (= northern) Italy]” ( Rondani 1861c: 274); Rondani (1861e: 126) gave “… in alpibus Insubriae, … in Alpibus Pedemontanis [Insubrian (= Lombardy) Alps, … Piedmont Alps]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (abdomen and thorax partially eaten by dermestids, missing right fore- and left midlegs) ( MZUF: Box 16): Ocyptera Fab. / alpestris Rnd. / 867; 1 ♀, syntype (missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 16): Ocyptera Fab. / alpestris Rnd. / Alpi Lomb. [= Lombard Alps] / 867.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Cylindromyia xylotina (Egger, 1860) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 429) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861c: 274) described Ocyptera alpestris from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length. Later Rondani (1861e: 274) added: “ Faeminam speciei in alpibus Insubriae captam a Clar. De Cristofori olim accepi, et alteram postea misit Celeb. Spinola in Alpibus Pedemontanis lectam [Formerly I received the female of this species collected in the Insubrian Alps from Mr. De Cristoforis, later Mr. Spinola sent the other collected in the Piedmont Alps]”. We found two female syntypes in this study. A male in the MSNPV is not included in the type series because of its sex.