Mycetomyza sciarina Rondani, 1856

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 164

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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scientific name	Mycetomyza sciarina Rondani, 1856
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1856: 197.

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: 2 ♂♂, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 64): Mycetomyza Rndn. / sciarina Rnd. , Parma / 3294.

CURRENT STATUS: Hackman et al. (1988) did not list it; doubtful species of Mycetophilidae View in CoL , as Mycosia sciarina, ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 122) ; doubtful species of Mycetophilidae View in CoL (P. Chandler, pers. comm., December 2013).

REMARKS: Rondani’s (1856: 197) key for the genus Mycetomyza Rondani, 1856 lists Mycetomyza sciarina as its type species, but he did not provide a detailed description, type locality, number or sex of the specimens. We found two syntypes in this study. Rondani (1861e: 12) realized his Mycetomyza was preoccupied by Fallén, 1810 and proposed the new replacement name Mycosia , with the type species as Mycetomyza sciarina Rondani, 1856 , automatically. O’Hara et al. (2011: 122) noted the new replacement name and treated Mycosia and its type species, Mycetomyza sciarina , as nomina dubia . Peter Chandler (pers. comm., December 2013) considered it a doubtful species because its identification cannot be carried out on the basis of Rondani’s description.