Miltogramma punctatella Rondani, 1868

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 196-197

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Miltogramma punctatella Rondani, 1868 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868a: 40.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in colle agri parmensis [Parmese hill ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype (missing mid- and hind-legs, abdomen glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen) (MZUF: Box 14): Miltogramma Mgn / punctatella Rnd. / 718 / holotype ♀ Miltogramma punctatella Rnd., ♀, T. Pape det., 1986 / Senotainia albifrons (Rnd.) , T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sphixapata albifrons Rnd . 94 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. H-11 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa , Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani ; 1 ♀ ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sphixapata albifrons Rnd . ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. H-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa , Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Miltogramma punctatum Meigen, 1824 ( Verves 1986: 75) ; junior synonym of Senotainia albifrons (Rondani, 1859) View in CoL ( Pape 1988: 14, 1996: 134).

REMARKS: Rondani (1868a: 40) described Miltogramma punctatella from just the female sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “( Foem.) … semel capta [(Fem.[ale]) … collected once]”. Pape (1988: 14) reported a ‘holotype’ in the MZUF without knowing of two additional syntypes ( one male and one female) in the MSNC, which brings the original syntype series to three specimens. In his original description, Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single female specimen, therefore Pape’s reference to a ‘holotype’ specimen must be considered as a lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). The additional syntypes in the MSNC not examined by Pape are paralectotypes.