Ptilocheta passerinii Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 186-187

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Ptilocheta passerinii Rondani, 1862 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 136 (key), 138 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Apennino parmensi, … ab Etruria missa [Parmese Apennines … Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (thorax and anterior part of abdomen damaged, missing right fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 17): Ptilocheta Rndn. / passerinii Rnd. / 893 / lectotype ♂, Ptilocheta passerinii Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986 / Stevenia deceptoria (L.), T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 2 ♂♂ (one missing mid- and left hind-legs, the other with abdomen and thorax eaten by dermestids and missing right mid-leg), 4 ♀♀ (two missing left fore- and mid-leg): paralectotypes ( MZUF: Box 17): Ptilocheta Rndn. / passerinii Rnd. / 893 .

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♀ ( MZUF: Box F): Ptilocheta passerinii R., 383 , ♀, Parma / 393 383; 1 ♀ (in poor condition, only thorax with right fore-leg and right wing remain) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Ptilocheta passerinii Rnd . 413 ♀ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. D-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa , Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( MSNPV: Box 96): Ptilocheta passerinii R., 512 , ♂ ♀, Etruria .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Stevenia deceptoria (Loew, 1847) View in CoL ( Pape 1989: 357, Herting 1993: 112, Peris & González-Mora 2007: 53; Cerretti et al. 2020: 98).

REMARKS: Rondani (1862d: 138) described both sexes of Ptilocheta passerinii from an unspecified number of specimens he had collected and also received from E. Bertè, G. Passerini and F.M. Piccioli. Pape (1989: 357) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀) but did not mention an additional four specimens: one female in the MZUF, one female in the MSNC and one male and one female in the MSNPV (all these additional specimens are paralectotypes). O’Hara et al. (2011: 155) considered Ptilocheta as an “unnecessary new replacement name for Ptilocera Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ”.