Sphixapata piligena Rondani, 1865

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 211

Sphixapata piligena Rondani, 1865

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1865c: 217.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri Parmensis [Parmese hills ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype ( MZUF: Box 14): Sphixapata Rndn. / piligena Rnd. , ♂ / 720 / lectotype Sphixapata piligena Rndn., T. Pape det., 1986 / Sphixapata albifrons (Rnd.) , T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 3 ♂♂ ( MZUF: Box 14): Sphixapata Rndn. piligena Rnd. ♂ / 720 / paralectotype; 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ (the male and one female on the same pin) ( MZUF: Box 14): Sphixapata Rndn. piligena Rnd. ♀ / 720 / paralectotype.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll.: Box 11): Type / S. piligena Ex. Coll. Big. / Sphixapata piligena ♂ Italia, Rond .

CURRENT STATUS: doubtful species of Senotainia Macquart, 1846 ( Verves 1986: 66) ; junior synonym of Senotainia albifrons (Rondani, 1859) ( Pape 1988: 13, 1996: 134); junior synonym of Senotaina (Sphixapata) puncticornis (Zetterstedt, 1859) ( Povolný & Verves 1997: 63) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1865c: 217) described both sexes of Sphixapata piligena without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens, but he presumably had more than one specimen because he wrote: “ non rara [not rare]”. Pape (1988: 13) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (4 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀), but did not mention an additional male in the OUMNH (this additional specimen is a paralectotype).