Egginoseura maculipes Rondani, 1868

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

Egginoseura maculipes Rondani, 1868

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868c: 205.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in planitie prope Parmam … prope Neapolim … in Hibernia [plains near Parma … near Naples ( Italy) … Ibernia (= Ireland)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold, abdomen broken) ( MZUF: Box 28): Eggisoneura [sic!] Rndn. Lucina al. / maculipes Rndn. , ♀, Sora [= Sora (near Naples)] / 1486, 2 ♂♂ (only one of the two is a syntype but is not labeled as such) (one covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 28): Eggisoneura [sic!] Rndn. Lucina al. / maculipes Rndn. , ♂, fasciata ? Mgn, Irland. [= Ireland], Pedem. [= Piedmont] / 1486.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Salticella fasciata (Meigen, 1830) ( Rivosecchi 1992a: 44, Rozkošný & Elberg 1984: 168).

REMARKS: Rondani (1868c: 205) described both sexes of Egginoseura maculipes without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ semel marem legi … Exemplar foemineum misit … Garbiglietti … prope Neapolim inventum, et specimen maris a clar. Haliday olim obtinui in Hibernia captum [I collected the male once … Garbiglietti … sent a female specimen found near Naples, and I obtained a male specimen formerly collected in Hibernia (= Ireland) by Mr. Haliday]”. There are two males labeled “ Irland., Pedem [= Ireland, Piedmont]” in the MZUF but “ Pedem. [= Piedmont]” is not a type locality. We are unable to single out which male was collected in Piedmont. We leave the recognition of this latter syntype to a future specialist.