Clausicella suturata Rondani, 1856

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 298

Clausicella suturata Rondani, 1856

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1856: 61.

TYPE LOCALITY: Rondani gave no type locality in his original description but later (1859b: 23) added “ in ditione parmensi … in Etruria [ Parmese territory … Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing right hind-leg, the other missing fore- and left mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 9): Clausicella Rnd. / suturata Rnd. , ♂ / 456; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing left fore- and both mid-legs; one missing left mid- and hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 9): Clausicella Rnd. / suturata Rnd. , ♀ / 456; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore-, left mid- and left hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box E): Clausicella R. suturata R., 158, Etrur. [= Etruria (Tuscany) ] / 393 158; 1 specimen, syntype (sex not determinable, missing right mid-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Clausicella R. suturata R. Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 4, posiz. G- 10 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUB: Box 323): 21 87 / Clausicella suturata Rond. , ex a. parmensi / suturata Rndn. , Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 345, Pape et al. 1995: 27, Cerretti 2010: 401; O’Hara et al. 2020: 682).

REMARKS: Rondani’s (1856: 61) key for the genus Clausicella Rondani, 1856 lists Clausicella suturata as its type species, but he did not provide a detailed description, type locality, number or sex of the specimens. We found seven syntypes in this study.