Ptilops infans Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 351

Ptilops infans Rondani, 1862

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 167 (key), 170 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensis … in Etruria [ Parmese hills … Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing left fore- and mid-legs; one missing right mid-leg; one missing left fore-, mid- and both hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 11): Ptilops Rnd. / infans Rnd. , ♂ / 549; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing all but the thorax) ( MZUF: Box 11): Ptilops / Rnd. infans Rnd. , ♀ / 549; 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing left fore- and both mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box F): Ptilops infans Rnd. , 389, Parma / 393 389; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right wing) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Ptilopus infans Rnd. 420 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. E-3 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore- and both mid-legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Ptilopus infans Rnd. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. E-4 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Dufouria nigrita (Fallén, 1810) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 394) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1862d: 170) described both sexes of Ptilops infans without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material he had collected and also received from F.M. Piccioli. We found ten syntypes in this study.