Pyrrosia diaphana Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 352

Pyrrosia diaphana Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 64 (key), 66 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agri parmensis collibus et planitie … Foeminam ab Insubria [Parmese hills and plains … the female from Insubria (= Lombardy) ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing fore-, mid- and right hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 15): Pyrrosia Rnd. / diaphana Rnd. , ♂ / 799; 3 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right fore- and mid-legs; one missing left mid-leg; one missing right fore- and left hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 15): Pyrrosia Rnd. / diaphana Rnd. , ♀ / 799; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box D): Pyrrosia R. diaphana R., 300, ♂, Parma / 393 300; 1 ♀, syntype (missing head and both forelegs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Pyrrosia diaphana R. 120 ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-16 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Solieria pacifica ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 344) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 66) described both sexes of Pyrrosia diaphana without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths from material he had collected and also received from G. Cristoforis. We found seven syntypes in this study.