Gedia parmensis Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 319

Gedia parmensis Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 112 (key), 113 (description).

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (dirty, covered with mold), 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUF: Box 16): Gedia Mgn / parmensis Rnd. / 853; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left hind-leg), 1 ♀, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box C): Gedia parmensis R., 314, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 314; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Gedia parmensis R. 135 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. D-3 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Gedia parmensis R. ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. D-4 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 96): Gedia Mgn parmensis R., 412, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype (slightly moldy) ( OUMNH General Collection: 167.3): syntype / Type / G. parmensis Ex. Coll. Bigot / G. parmensis ♀ Parma, Rond. / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Gaedia connexa ( Meigen, 1824) .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Gaedia connexa ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 252) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 113) described both sexes of Gedia parmensis without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, under the generic name Gedia , which is an “unjustified emendation of Gaedia Meigen, 1838 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 88). We found nine syntypes in this study.