Onodontha penicillata Rondani, 1866

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 152-153

Onodontha penicillata Rondani, 1866

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 82.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in toto agro parmensi … In Etruria … Bononiae … in Ditione Neapolitana [ Parmese territory … Etruria (= Tuscany) … Bologna … Neapolitan territory ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 3 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing right mid-leg), 2 ♀♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 22): Onodontha Rnd. / penicillata Rnd. / 1151; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box F): Onodontha Rnd. penicillata R., 432, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 432; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Onodontha penicillata R. 468 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 6, posiz. A-8 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Onodontha penicillata R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 6, posiz.A-9 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype (missing wings, abdomen partially broken) ( MSNPV: Box 93): Onodontha R. penicillata R., ♂ ♀, 573, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype (missing head and fore left-leg) ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 151.1): syntype / Type / Onodontha Rond. penicillata Rond., Eur. merid. [South Europe] / O. ciliata [sic!] Ex. Coll. Big.; 1 ♂, syntype ( OUMNH General Collection: 151.1): syntype / Typ. / Ex. Coll. Big.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Hydrotaea penicillata ( Pont 1986b: 81, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 11).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 82) described both sexes of Onodontha penicillata without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens that he had collected and also that he had received from F.M. Piccioli, G. Bertoloni and A. Costa. We found 12 syntypes in this study.