Zeuxia parmensis Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 363

Zeuxia parmensis Rondani, 1862

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:1862c: 142 (key), 143 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensi … in Liguria … ad Tergestum [Parmese territory … Liguria … Trieste ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing left fore-leg; one missing left mid- and right hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 18): Zeuxia Mgn / parmensis Rnd. , ♂ / 985; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing left mid-leg, the other partially eaten by dermestids, missing right fore-, mid- and hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 18): Zeuxia Mgn / parmensis Rnd. , ♀ / 985; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid- and right hind-legs), 1 ♀, syntype (missing right hind-leg) ( MZUF: Box C): Zeuxia Mgn parmensis R., 359, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 359; 1 ♂, syntype (missing head, left fore- and right midlegs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Zeuxia Mgn. parmensis R. 183 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. H-11 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Zeuxia parmensis R. ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. H-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 95): Zeuxia Mgn parmensis RND. , 475, ♂ ♀, Parma; 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right wing) ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 166.4): Syntyp. / Type / Z. tessellata Egger 1860 , det. Herting / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Zeuxia tessellata (Egger, 1860) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 370) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1862c: 143) described both sexes of Zeuxia parmensis from an unspecified number of specimens that he had collected and that he had also received from G. Mussino and J.R. Schiner. We found 13 syntypes in this study. An additional four males and three females in the MZUF, numbered “1854”, are not included in the type series because their labels are yellowish rather than the greenish color of Rondani’s original handwritten ones and are in a lower row in the Box, for which reason we treat them to be subsequent additions .