Sphixapata maculosa Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 210

Sphixapata maculosa Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 224 (key), 227 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ tam in planitiae quam in montuosis agri parmensis … In Etruria [Parmese plains and mountains … Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype ( MZUF: Box 14): Sphixapata Rndn. / maculosa Rnd. , ♂ / 722 / lectotype ♂ Sphixapata maculosa Rndn., T. Pape det., 1986 / Amobia signata (Mg.) , T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ (one missing mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 14): Sphixapata Rndn. / maculosa Rnd. / 722 / paralectotype .

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (MZUF: Box D): Sphixapata maculosa R., 275, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 275; 1 ♂ (missing right fore- and both hind-legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sphixapata maculosa R. 95 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. H-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀ (thorax partially eaten by dermestids, missing right hind-leg) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sphixapata maculosa R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. H-14 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani. 1 ♀ (missing forelegs) (MZUB: Box 326): 23 09 / Miltogramma maculosa Rond. , ex a. Parmensi / maculosa Rndn , Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Amobia signata ( Meigen, 1824) ( Verves 1986: 62, Pape 1988: 10, Pape 1996: 74).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 227) described Sphixapata maculosa without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material he had collected and also received from F.M. Piccioli. Pape (1988: 10) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, one of which is labeled “722 / Sphixapata Rndn. maculosa Rnd. / German. 5.77” and if “German.” means “ Germany ” it did not belong to the type series), but did not mention an additional five specimens: one male and one female in the MZUF, one male and one female in the MSNC, and one female in the MZUB (all are paralectotypes).