Prosena sybarita Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 350

Prosena sybarita Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861d: 280.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Havniae [= Copenhagen ( Denmark)]” ( Fabricius, 1775: 798) [type locality for Prosena siberita ( Fabricius, 1775) ].

TYPE MATERIAL: see Remarks.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Prosena siberita ( Fabricius, 1775) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 367, O’Hara & Cerretti 2016: 108).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861d: 280) proposed the substitute name Prosena sybarita for Prosena siberita ( Fabricius, 1775) in reference to the locality “Sybaris” [= Sibari, Italy], which was not reported in the original description by Fabricius (1775: 798). Pandellé (1896: 161) considered Prosena sybarita as junior synonym of Prosena siberita . Bezzi & Stein (1907: 448) listed the species as Prosena sybarita ( Fabricius, 1775) . Herting & Dely- Draskovits (1993: 367), O’Hara et al. (2011: 214), O’Hara & Cerretti (2016: 108) and Evenhuis & Pape (2020) listed Prosena sybarita as an available name, unjustified emendation of Prosena siberita . The type material for Prosena sybarita will be the same as for the name it was proposed to replace, i. e., Prosena siberita . There is no type of Prosena siberita in the ZMUC where the Fabrician collection is preserved ( Michelsen 2017).