Viviania nubilis Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 362

Viviania nubilis Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 54.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one dirty, missing right mid-leg, the other dirty, missing right fore- and mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 15): Viviana [sic!] Rnd. / nubilis Rnd. , ♂ / 765; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing fore- and right mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 15): Viviana [sic!] Rnd. / nubilis Rnd. , ♀ / 765; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid- and hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box D): Viviana [sic!] R. nubilis Rnd. , 295, ♂, Parma / 393 295; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Viviania R. nubilis R. 115 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-8 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing left mid- and hind legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Viviania nubilis R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-9 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Conogaster pruinosa ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 147, O’Hara et al. 2020: 214).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 54) described both sexes of Viviania nubilis without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths. We found seven syntypes in this study.