Sarcophaga noverca Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 203

Sarcophaga noverca Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861g: 379 (key), 386 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ In Italia media et boreali [central and boreal (= northern) Italy]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (right fore-femur and left side of thorax eaten by dermestids, missing left fore-leg and tarsus of the left mid-leg, terminalia glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box C): Sarcophaga noverca R., 367, ♂, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 367 / lectotype ♂ Sarcophaga noverca Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986 / Helicophagella noverca (Rnd.) , T. Pape det. , 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 5 ♂♂ (terminalia all dissected and glued to cardboard stages pinned below each specimen) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / noverca Rnd. , ♂ / 1009 / = noverca Pand. , det. Böttcher / paralectotype [not designated].

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sarcophaga noverca Rnd. 392 ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. B-16 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Sarcophaga (Helicophagella) noverca ( Verves 1986: 138, Pape 1988: 12, Pape et al. 1995: 14, Pape 1996: 320, Povolný & Verves 1997: 155; Krčmar et al. 2019: 124).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861g: 386) described Sarcophaga noverca from just the male sex, without specifying the number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, but presumably from more than one specimen because he wrote: “ non rara [not rare]”. In his redescription of Sarcophaga noverca Rondani (1862d: 107) specified the type locality: “ in collibus et montuosis agri parmensis [Parmese hills and mountains] … in Pedemontio [in Piedmont]”. Pape (1988: 11) designated a lectotype (♂) and reported (p. 12): “None of the five males standing under noverca in Rondani’s original collection (species N° 1009) is in agreement with the present concept of this species …, and to avoid both a change in identity of the well known noverca Rondani , and the creation of a new name for what would be noverca auctt., I have chosen to select a male from drawer C, standing at the label “ noverca ”, as lectotype ”. Pape (1988: 11) did not mention an additional male in the MSNC (this additional specimen is a paralectotype). A MZUF female numbered “1009” is not included in the type series because of its sex.