Sarcophaga proxima Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 205

Sarcophaga proxima Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861g: 383 (key), 392 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ In Italia boreali [boreal (= northern) Italy]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (slightly moldy, missing left mid- and hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / proxima Macq. [sic!] / 1041 / Spec. bona non proxima Böttcher / holotype ♂ Sarcophaga proxima Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986 / Heteronychia proxima (Rond.) , T. Pape det., 1986.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) proxima ( Verves 1986: 150, Pape 1988: 13, Pape et al. 1995: 14, Pape 1996: 332, Povolný & Verves 1997: 177, Whitmore 2011: 45; Krčmar et al. 2019: 132).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861g: 392) described Sarcophaga proxima from just the male sex, giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by G. Mussino. In his redescription he specified (1862d: 125) having one specimen: “ Specimen unicum observavi [I observed a single specimen]”, received from G. Mussino. Pape (1988: 13) reported the holotype (♂) in the MZUF. Whitmore (2011: 45) reported having examined the MZUF holotype. The MZUF also contains three females (non-types) numbered “1041”.