Miltogramma pilimana Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 195-196

Miltogramma pilimana Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 216 (key), 218 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in … agri parmensis , praesertim collinis… Ab Etruria [Parmese territory, above all on hills… Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (moldy) ( MZUF: Box 14): Miltogramma Mgn / pilimana Rnd. , ♂ / 714 / Lectotype ♂ Miltogramma pilimana Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986 / Miltogramma taeniatum Meig., T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ (one covered with mold; one missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 14): Miltogramma Mgn / pilimana Rnd. / 714 / paralectotype .

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (missing left hind-leg), 1 ♀ (missing left mid-leg) (MZUF: Box D): Miltogramma pilimana R., 272, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 272; 1 ♂ (missing right fore- and both hind-legs, abdomen partially eaten by dermestids) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Miltogramma pilimana R. 91 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. H-7 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂ (missing right hind-leg and right wing) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Miltogramma pilimana Rnd. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. H-8 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 specimen (sex not determinable, in poor condition) (MS- NPV: Box 96): Miltogramma pilimana R., 156, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll.: Box 7): Rondani type / sec. typ. Rondanii / M. pilimana Ex. Coll. Kow. / syntype / Miltogramma pilimana ♂ ♀ Italia, Rond. / G. Miltogramma Meig. Rond. Schin.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Miltogrammidium taeniatum ( Meigen, 1824) ( Verves 1986: 78) ; junior synonym of Miltogramma taeniata Meigen, 1824 ( Pape 1988: 13, 1996: 117; Krčmar et al. 2019: 110).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 218) described both sexes of Miltogramma pilimana without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length from material he had collected and also received from F.M. Piccioli and G. Passerini. Pape (1988: 13) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀) but did not mention an additional seven specimens: two in the MZUF, two in the MSNC, one in the MS- NPV and two in the OUMNH (all are paralectotypes).