Gymnosoma latifrons Rondani, 1865

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 321

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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scientific name	Gymnosoma latifrons Rondani, 1865
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Gymnosoma latifrons Rondani, 1865 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1865c: 224.

TYPE LOCALITY: Rondani gave no type locality in his original description but presumably it is Italy because the work deals with Italian species .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (dirty, covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 17): Gymnosoma Mgn / latifrons Rndn. / 942.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Gymnosoma nitens Meigen, 1824 ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 405).

REMARKS: Rondani (1865c: 224) described Gymnosoma latifrons from just the female sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens. We found one syntype in this study.