Elgiva truquii Rondani, 1863

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 216-217

Elgiva truquii Rondani, 1863

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 36.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Soria [ Syria]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (one antenna on a slide) ( MZUF: Box 28): Elgiva Mgn / truquii Rnd. , ♀, Siria / 1495 / type / E. truquii Rond., J. Verbeke det., 1963.

SLIDE: Antenna on slide n° 14 (Box Diptera Rondani 2): Knutsonia truquii Rond., Coll. Rondani No. 1495 , Syria, J. Verbeke det., 1963, E. truquii Rond. , Type ♀, J. Verbeke det., 1963.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Knutsonia truquii ( Rozkošný & Elberg 1984: 185) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 36) described Elgiva truquii without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens collected in Syria by Truqui. In his redescription, Rondani (1868c: 212) specified having a female collected in Damascus ( Syria) by E. Truqui and a female collected in Sardinia from M. Spinola, which he reported as a subsequent addition. Verbeke (1964b: 28, 29) considered the two females of Elgiva truquii in the MZUF as belonging to two different species: one as the type of Elgiva truquii from Syria and the other, from Sardinia, as a synonym of Elgiva unipunctata (Macquart, 1849) . He erroneously considered the female from Sardinia as the “cotype”. We consider Verbeke’s “type” as the holotype. Elgiva truquii and Elgiva lateritia Rondani, 1868 (Box 28) are both numbered “1495”. This is one of the few exotic species described in Rondani (1863) that Costa (1866) did not list as in the MZUN.