Mimosciara lestremina Rondani, 1840

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 80

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1

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scientific name

Mimosciara lestremina Rondani, 1840
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Mimosciara lestremina Rondani, 1840 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1840b: 26.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus parmensibus [ Parmese hills ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 specimens, syntypes (sex not determinable, only the part of a wing on each pin) ( MZUF: Box 65): Mimosciara Rnd. / lestremina Rnd. / [no identification number ].

CURRENT STATUS: doubtful species of Cecidomyiidae ( Skuhravá 1986: 295) View in CoL ; junior synonym of Catocha latipes Haliday, 1833 View in CoL ( Gagné 2010: 25, Gagné & Jaschhof 2017: 34).

REMARKS: Rondani (1840b: 26) described Mimosciara lestremina without specifying the exact number of the specimens, providing specific characters for the male and female, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being more than one specimen in the type series found in this study. The species has no identification number . Gagné & Solinas (1996: 73) reported that “fragments of the thoraxes of two specimens, each on a separate pin, are all that remain of this nominal species. Each pin bears a tiny sketch of a wing, one representing a possible sciarid, the other a Catocha latipes , similar to that drawn for Mimosciara lestremina in Rondani 1846 [see Rondani, 1846: tav. III]”. They suggested designating the holotype of Catocha latipes Haliday, 1833 as the neotype of Mimosciara lestremina . All that remains of the type material are the two pins with just the wing sketches and no thorax fragments in the MZUF.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Cecidomyiidae

Genus

Mimosciara

Loc

Mimosciara lestremina Rondani, 1840

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele 2021
2021
Loc

Catocha latipes

Haliday 1833
1833
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