Sphiximorpha petronillae Rondani, 1850

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 269

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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scientific name	Sphiximorpha petronillae Rondani, 1850
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Sphiximorpha petronillae Rondani, 1850 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1850b: 213.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in planitie prope padana Parmensis ditionis [Parmese plains near the Po valley ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype (slightly covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 8): Sphiximorpha Rndn. / petronillae Rnd. / 373 / lectotype Sphecomorpha [sic!] petronillae Rondani, 1850 , design. Van Steenis, 2016.

PARALECTOTYPE EXAMINED: 1 ♀ ( MZUF: Box 8): Sphiximorpha Rndn. / petronillae Rnd. , ♀ / 373 / paralectotype Sphecomorpha [sic!] petronillae Rondani, 1850 , design. van Steenis, 2016.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Peck 1988: 180, Belcari et al. 1995a: 17, Steenis et al. 2016: 197).

REMARKS: Rondani (1850b: 213) described Sphiximorpha petronillae from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being two specimens in the type series found in this study: “ Faemina tantum speciei a me tecta [sic!] [= lecta ] fuit [only the female of the species was collected by me]”. Van Steenis et al. (2016: 197) designated a lectotype (♀) and paralectotype (♀) and mistakenly reported that Rondani ascribed this nominal species to the genus Sphecomorpha Bezzi, 1906 .