Spilogaster indistincta Rondani, 1866

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 156

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Spilogaster indistincta Rondani, 1866
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 112 (key), 119 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in planitie et collibus agri parmensis … in Liguria vel Pedemontio [Parmese plains and hills … in Liguria as well as Piedmont ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing left mid-leg, the other partially eaten by dermestids, covered with mold and missing all legs except the right hind-leg), 1 ♀, syntype (missing right wing, left mid- and right hindlegs) ( MZUF: Box 25): Spilogaster Mcqrt / indistincta Rndn. , Parma / 1317; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUF: Box F): Spilogaster indistincta R., 444, ♀, Parma / 393 444; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Spylogaster indistincta Rnd. 482 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 6, posiz. B- 14 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing head and right fore-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Spylogaster indistincta Rnd. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 6, posiz. B-15 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 94): Spilogaster indistincta R., 582, ♀, Parma .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Helina impuncta (Fallén, 1825) ( Pont 1986b: 144, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 13).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 119) described both sexes of Spilogaster indistincta without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material that he had collected and that he had also received from G. Mussino. Hennig (1961: 228) reported only two males in the MZUF. We found seven syntypes in this study. An additional three MZUF specimens numbered “1317” are not included in the type series because their labels are yellowish rather than the greenish color of Rondani’s original handwritten ones and are in a lower row in the Box, for which reason we treat them to be subsequent additions.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

PI

Paleontological Institute

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Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Spilogaster

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