Chorthophila cunicularia Rondani, 1866

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 37

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Chorthophila cunicularia Rondani, 1866 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 156 (key), 163 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Etruria [ Etruria (= Tuscany, Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (postabdomen stored in glycerine in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 23): Chorthophila Mcq. / cunicularia Rnd., Etrur. [= Etruria (Tuscany) ] / 1208.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Pegomya cunicularia View in CoL ( Dely-Draskovits 1993: 79, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 8).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 163) described Chorthophila cunicularia from a single female: “ Foeminam unicam possideo [I have a single female]” received from F.M. Piccioli, and later (1877c: 208) spelled the name as “ cunicularis ”, which we consider as an unnecessary spelling correction. Hennig (1973a: 578) incorrectly reported three female types in the MZUF. Michelsen (1980b: 303) correctly reported one male and two females. In agreement with the original description, he considered the female with the “ femoribus anticis superne nigricantibus [forefemora dorsally darkened]” as the holotype and the second female with “all the femora wholly yellow” as not belonging to the type series. Rondani described this nominal species under the generic name Chorthophila , which is an “unjustified emendation of Chortophila Macquart, 1835 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 57).