Masicera spinuligera Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 331

Masicera spinuligera Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 19 (key), 27 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in toto agro parmensi [all the Parmese territory ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 3 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing left mid- and hind-legs), 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right fore- and left mid-legs; one missing left fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 15): Masicera Macq. / spinuligera Rnd. / 752; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right fore- and hind-legs), 1 ♀, syntype (thorax partially broken by the pin, missing mid- and right hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box D): Masicera spinuligera R., 284, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 284; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Masicera spinuligera R. 103 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. A-9 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore- and both hind-legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Masicera spinuligera R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. A-10 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 96): Masicera spinuligera R., 173, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 167.1): syntype / Type / M. spinuligera Ex. Coll. Big. / M. spinuliera ♂ Belida angelicae id. Meig., Italia, Rond / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Belida angelicae ( Meigen, 1824) , Palaearctic.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Belida angelicae ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 145) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 27) described both sexes of Masicera spinuligera without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, treating it within the subgenus Ceromasia Rondani, 1856 , which is now considered as a valid genus ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 50). We found 11 syntypes in this study.