Botria pascuorum Rondani, 1856

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 291

Botria pascuorum Rondani, 1856

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1856: 68.

TYPE LOCALITY: Rondani gave no type locality in his original description but later (1859b: 169) added “ in collibus subapenninis agri parmensis [ Parmese sub-Apennine hills ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one covered with mold, the other missing right mid-leg), 1 ♀, syntype (missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 12): Bothria [sic!] Rnd. / pascuorum Rnd. / 605; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box D): Bothria [sic!] R. pascuorum R., 245, ♂, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 245; 1 ♀, syntype (missing head) ( MRSN: Box 1756): Parma / Bothricora? Pascuorum 40 Rndn. / Museo di Zoologia della Università Torino, Italia; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right fore-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Botria Rnd. pascuorum R. 62 ♂ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. F-4 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 96): Bothria [sic!] Rnd. pascuorum R., 124, ♂, Apenn. [= Apennines]; 2 ♂♂, 1 ♂, syntypes ( MZUB: Box 326): 22 90 / Botricorra pascuorum Rond. ex a parmensi / pascuorum ♂ Rndn., Parma; 1 ♀, syntype (one slightly moldy; one missing right fore-leg; one missing right mid-leg) ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 166.10): syntype / Type / Botricorra pascuorum Rd. , Parma / B. pascuorum Ex. Coll. Big. / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Bothria [sic!] frontosa ( Meigen, 1824) Palaearctic ; 1 ♀, syntype (slightly moldy, missing left hind-leg) ( OUMNH: General Collection: Box166.10): syntype / Bothria [sic!] pascuorum Rd. / Rondani Typ. / Sec. Typ. Rondanii / B. pascuorum Ex. Coll. Kow. / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Bothria [sic!] frontosa ( Meigen, 1824) , Palaearctic.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Botria frontosa ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 237; O’Hara et al. 2020: 429).

REMARKS: Rondani’s (1856: 68) key for the genus Botria Rondani, 1856 lists Botria pascuorum as its type species, but he did not provide a detailed description, type locality, number or sex of the specimens. He later ( Rondani 1859b: 167) supplied a detailed description of the species and provided specific characters for the male and female. We found 12 syntypes in this study.