Morphomyia caliendrata Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 335

Morphomyia caliendrata Rondani, 1862

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 48 (key), 49 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: Rondani (1856: 83) gave no locality in his redescription of Morphomyia tachinoides (Fallén, 1810) , but presumably it is Italy because the work deals with Italian species; “ in planitie quam in collibus agri parmensi [Parmese plains and hills ( Italy)]” ( Rondani 1862d: 49) [type locality for Morphomyia caliendrata Rondani, 1862 ].

TYPE MATERIAL: 7 ♂♂, syntypes (one covered with mold, missing right fore-leg; one missing left fore- and right hind-legs; one missing left mid-leg; one missing mid-legs; two missing fore-legs; one missing mid- and right hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 18): Morphomyia Rnd. / caliendrata Rnd. , ♂ / 966; 5 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right mid-leg; one partially eaten by dermestids, missing right mid-leg; one missing mid- and hind-legs; one missing left fore- and both mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 18): Morphomyia Rnd. / caliendrata Rnd. , ♀ / 966; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box C): Morphomyia R. caliendrata R., 348, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 348; 1 ♂, syntype (head and thorax partially eaten by dermestids) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Morphomya R. caliendrata R. 171 ♂ 2 ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. G-7 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype (in poor condition, thorax partially eaten by dermestids, missing right mid- and hind-legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Morphomya caliendrata R. ♂ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. G-8 / 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): Morphomya caliendrata R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. G-9 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 95): Morphomyia R. caliendrata R., 460, ♂ ♀ Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Stomina caliendrata ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 391, Pape et al. 1995: 30, O’Hara et al. 2020: 171).

REMARKS: Rondani (1862d: 49) proposed Morphomyia caliendrata for Morphomyia tachinoides (Fallén, 1810) sensu Rondani (1856: 83) , which he considered a new species. We found 18 syntypes in this study. Rondani described both sexes of this nominal species under the generic name Morphomyia , which is an “unjustified emendation of Morphomya Rondani, 1856 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 120).