Tephritis conjuncta var. separata Rondani, 1871

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 375

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scientific name	Tephritis conjuncta var. separata Rondani, 1871
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Tephritis conjuncta var. separata Rondani, 1871 View in CoL View at ENA

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1871b: 18.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in tota Italia [in all Italy]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype (one leg, abdomen and wing in a plastic vial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 31): Tephritis Latr. / separata Rnd. ♂ [sic!], Sicil. / 1658 / lectotype Tephritis separata Rondani , det. B. Merz, 1992.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (dirty) ( MZUF: Box 31): Tephritis Latr. / separata Rnd. , ♂ / 1658 / ♂.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Tephritis separata ( Foote 1984: 133, White 1986: 156, Merz 1992: 236, Merz 1994: 76, Belcari et al. 1995b: 11, Norrbom et al. 1999: 219).

REMARKS: Rondani (1871b: 18) described separata as a variety of the species Tephritis conjuncta ( Loew, 1844) , without specifying the number, sex or length of the specimens. Merz (1992: 236) designated a lectotype (♀) but did not mention an additional MZUF male numbered “1658” (this additional specimen is a paralectotype).