Echinomya casta Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 304

Echinomya casta Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 48 (key), 53 (description).

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (covered with mold), 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one covered with mold, the other missing head) ( MZUF: Box 10): Echynomya [sic!] Dmrl / casta Rnd. , ♂ / 483; 1 ♂, syntype (missing fore- and hind-legs), 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUF: Box E): Echinomya Dmrl casta Rnd. , 168, ♂ ♀, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 168; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left fore-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Echinomya casta Rndn. ♂ ♀ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 4, posiz. H-8 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Echinomya casta Rndn. ♀ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 4, posiz. H-9 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 97): Echynomya [sic!] casta Rndn. , 50, ♂ ♀, Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Tachina casta ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 265, Pape et al. 1995: 23, Cerretti 2010: 304); valid species, as Tachina (Eudoromyia) casta ( O’Hara et al. 2020: 871) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 53) described both sexes of Echinomya casta without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, but presumably from more than one specimen because he stated: “ non infrequens [not rare]”. We found eight syntypes in this study.