Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 177-178

Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 196 (key), 200 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: Meigen (1826: 64) gave no locality in his redescription of Musca lanio Panzer, 1798 , but presumably it is Europe because the work deals with European species; “ D’Allemagne [= Germany]” ( Macquart 1835: 271) [locality for Pollenia lanio (Panzer, 1798) sensu Macquart (1835) ]; “ Lapp.-Scan. [= Lapland—Scandinavia]” ( Zetterstedt 1838: 658) [locality for Pollenia atramentaria ( Meigen, 1826) sensu Zetterstedt (1838) ]; “ per totam Scandinaviam etiam Lapponiam … Finlandia, Pommerania & Glogavia. … Eldena prope Gryphiam [in all of Scandinavia also Lapland … Finland, Pomerania (= North of Poland and Germany) & Glogavia (= Germany) … Eldena near Greifswald ( Germany)” ( Zetterstedt 1845: 1337) [locality for Pollenia atramentaria ( Meigen, 1826) sensu Zetterstedt (1845) ]; “ in tota Italia, a Pedemontio ad Melitam [in all of Italy, from Piedmont to Malta]” ( Rondani 1862d: 200) [type locality for Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862 ].

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (abdomen glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen, terminalia dissected and stored in glycerine in a microvial pinned below the abdomen) ( MZUF: Box 21): Pollenia Desv. / paupera Rndn. / Malta / 1103 / lectotype ♂, Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862 , des. K. Rognes, 1990.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box 21): Pollenia Desv. / paupera Rndn. / 143 Malta / 1103 / paralectotype ♂, Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862 , des. K. Rognes, 1990 / Pollenia longitheca Rogn., K. Rognes det., 1990; 3 ♂♂ (one missing left fore- and right mid-legs), 1 ♀ (missing left fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 21): Pollenia Desv. / paupera Rndn. / 1103 / paralectotype, Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862 , des. K. Rognes, 1990 / Pollenia longitheca Rogn., K. Rognes det., 1990; 2 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀ (one missing head, abdomen eaten by dermestids) ( MZUF: Box 21): Pollenia Desv. / paupera Rndn. / 1103 / paralectotype, Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862 , des. K. Rognes, 1990 / Pollenia pediculata Mcq., K. Rognes det., 1990; 1 ♀ ( MZUF: Box 21): Pollenia Desv. / paupera Rndn. / 1103 / paralectotype ♀, Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862 , des. K. Rognes, 1990 / Pollenia sp. , K. Rognes det., 1990; 1 ♂ ( MZUF: Box F): Pollenia paupera Rnd. , 406, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 406 / Paralectotypus ♂, Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862 des. K. Rognes, 1990 / Pollenia pediculata Meg. , ♂, K. Rognes det., 1990; 1 ♀ ( MZUF: Box F): Pollenia paupera Rnd. , 406, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 406 / Paralectotypus ♀, Pollenia paupera Rondani, 1862 des. K. Rognes, 1990/ Pollenia pediculata Meg. , ♀, K. Rognes det., 1990.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (MNHN: Meigen collection): lanio ♂ / Meigen 2146 40 / MNHN, Paris ED796; 1 ♂ (missing right mid- and hind-legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Pollenia paupera Rnd. 441 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. G-1 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀ (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Pollenia paupera Rnd. ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. G-2 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂ (MSNPV: Box 94): Pollenia paupera Rnd. , 543, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂ (MZLU: Box 24): 129. Musca Lin. / [yellow label] / M. atramentaria ♂, Scan. [= Scania] / Type no. 6678: 2; 1 ♂ (missing right hind-leg) (MZLU: Box 24): 129. Musca Lin. / [blue label] / [red label] / Type no. 6678: 3; 1 ♂ (MZLU: Box 24): 129. Musca Lin. / [blue label] / [red label] / Type no. 6678: 4; 1 ♂ (MZLU: Box 24): 129. Musca Lin. / [yellow label] / [red label] / Type no. 6678: 5; 1 ♂ (MZLU: Box 24): 129. Musca Lin. / Type no. 6678: 6; 1 ♂ (MZLU: Box 24): 129. Musca Lin. / Type no. 6678: 7; 1 ♀ (missing right fore-leg) (MZLU: Box 24): 129. Musca Lin. / [red label] / M. atramentaria ♀, Scan. [= Scania] /Type no. 6678: 8; 1 ♀ (abdomen and thorax partially eaten by dermestids, missing right mid-leg) (MZLU: Box 24): 129. Musca Lin. / [red label] / Type no. 6678: 9; 1 ♀ (only thorax, wings and some legs remain; head glued to a cardboard stage) (MZLU: Box 24): 129. Musca Lin. / [yellow label] / Type no. 6678: 10.

CURRENT STATUS: nomen dubium in Polleniinae ( Schumann 1986: 50) ; valid species, as Pollenia paupera ( Rognes 1991a: 366, Pape et al. 1995: 10).

REMARKS: Rondani (1862d: 200) proposed Pollenia paupera for Musca lanio Panzer, 1798 sensu Meigen (1826: 64) , for Pollenia lanio (Panzer, 1798) sensu Macquart (1835: 271) and for Pollenia atramentaria ( Meigen, 1826) sensu Zetterstedt (1838: 658, 1845: 1337 ), which he considered a new species. Rondani referred to Meigen’s, Macquart’s and Zetterstedt’s redescriptions of Musca lanio and Pollenia atramentaria , which were based on an unspecified number of specimens, and to an unspecified number of specimens in his collection. Therefore, the type material should be in the collections of Meigen (MNHN), Macquart (MHNL, MNHN, OUMNH), Zetterstedt (MZLU) and Rondani. There are no specimens in Macquart’s collection at MNHN (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 2020), at MNHL (O. Boilly, pers. comm., May 2019) and at OUMNH (Z. Simmons, pers. comm., May 2019). Rognes (1991a: 366) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (7 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀) in the MZUF but did not mention an additional 13 specimens: one in the MNHN, two in the MSNC, one in the MSNPV and nine in the MZLU (all are paralectotypes).