Sarcophaga amita Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 198

Sarcophaga amita Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861g: 383 (key), 391 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ In Apennino parmensi [Parmese Apennines ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / amita Rnd. / 1034 / = amita Pand. , nepos Rnd. , p. p. det. Böttcher / Lectotype ♂ Sarcophaga amita Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986 / Heteronychia amita (Rnd.) , T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / amita Rnd. / 1034 / = amita Pand. , sec. typ., det. Böttcher / paralectotype; 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / amita Rnd. / 1034 / paralectotype.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (missing right mid-leg) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sarcophaga amita Rnd. 401 ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. C-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂ (missing right mid-leg) (OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll.: Box. 7): Type / S. amita Ex. Coll. Big. / S. amita ♂ Italia, Rond. / Sarcophaga Mg.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Discachaeta amita ( Verves 1986: 145, Povolný & Verves 1997: 159); valid species, as Sarcophaga (Discachaeta) amita ( Pape 1988: 6, 1996: 314, Pape et al. 1995: 14); valid species, as Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) amita ( Whitmore 2011: 17; Krčmar et al. 2019: 126).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861g: 391) described Sarcophaga amita from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens. In his redescription Rondani (1862d: 122) specified having had more than one male: “ Marem legi in collibus, et alium in Apenino agri parmensis [I collected the male on hills, and once on the Parmese Apennines]”. Pape (1988: 6) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (2 ♂♂) but did not mention an additional male in the OUMNH and one male in the MSNC (both of these additional specimens are paralectotypes).