Hylemyia penicillaris Rondani, 1866

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 46

Hylemyia penicillaris Rondani, 1866

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 177 (key), 180 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in planitie et collibus agri parmensis … Bononiae …, et Brixiae [Parmese hills and plains, … Bologna …, and Brescia ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (abdomen on a slide) ( MZUF: Box 23): Hylemyia Rndn. / penicillaris Rnd. / 1248 / Delia penicillaris Rondani , Lectotypus, W. Hennig, 28/6/[19]73.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box 23): Hylemyia Rndn. / penicillaris Rnd. / 1248 / Delia penicillaris Rondani , Syntypus (= D. cardui Meigen ); 5 ♀♀ ( MZUF: Box 23): Hylemyia Rndn. / penicillaris Rnd. / 1248.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (MZUF: Box 23): Hylemyia Rndn. / penicillaris Rnd. / 1248; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (MZUF: Box G): Hylemyia penicillaris Rnd. , 479, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 479; 1 ♂ (in poor condition, only wings, superior part of abdomen and two legs remain) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Hylemya penicillaris R. 527 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 6, posiz. G-3 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀ (abdomen partially eaten by dermestids) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Hylemya penicillaris R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 6, posiz. G-4 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani.

SLIDE: Abdomen on slide n° 17 (Box Diptera Rondani 1): coll. Rondani, n° 1248, Mus. Florenz / Chorthophila [sic!] penicillaris Rondani , Lectotypus ♂, Abdomen.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Delia penicillaris ( Dely-Draskovits 1993: 47, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 6).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 180) described both sexes of Hylemyia penicillaris , from an unspecified number of specimens: “… capta in planitie et collibus agri parmensis . Bononiae etiam a Tacchetti, et Brixiae ab Erra [collected in Parmese hills and plains, also collected in Bologna by Tacchetti, and in Brescia by Erra]”. Hennig (1974b: 868) reported two males and five females in the MZUF and designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (1 ♂, 5 ♀♀) but did not mention an additional two males and one female in the MZUF and one male and one female in the MSNC (all are paralectotypes). Rondani described this nominal species under the generic name “ Hylemyia ”, which is an “incorrect subsequent spelling of Hylemya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 or subsequent usage of Hylemyia Macquart, 1835 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 99).