Spylosia majuscula Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 356

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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 111 (key), 112 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensis … in Etruriam captum … et alterum melitensis … accepi [ Parmese territory … (a male) collected in Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy) … and another one on Malta Island]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 3 ♂♂, syntypes (two missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 12): Spylosia Rnd. Meigenia D. / majuscula Rnd. , ♂ / 571; 3 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right fore- and mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 12): Spylosia Rnd. Meigenia D. / majuscula Rnd. , ♀ / 571; 1 ♂, syntype (missing mid-legs), 1 ♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box E): Spylosia R. majuscula R., 217, ♂ ♀, Parma 393 217; 1 ♂, syntype (missing head, both fore-, right mid- and left hind-legs, right wing damaged) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Spylosia R. majuscula R. 32 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. C-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Spylosia majuscula R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. C-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 97): Spylosia Rnd. majuscula Rnd. , 88, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype (abdomen partially destroyed, missing left wing and left mid-leg) ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 167.5): syntype / Type / M. majuscula Ex. Coll. Big. / Meigenia majuscula Rond. det Herting /Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Meigenia majuscula (Rondani, 1859) , Palaearctic.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Meigenia majuscula ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 146, Pape et al. 1995: 17, O’Hara et al. 2009: 52, 2020: 251).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 112) described both sexes of Spylosia majuscula , without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material he had collected and also received from F.M. Pecchioli and A. Schembri. We found 12 syntypes in this study.