Dasiphora saltuum Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 147-148

Dasiphora saltuum Rondani, 1862

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 206 (key), 207 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensi … In Insubria …, et prope Neapolim [ Parmese territory … Insubria (= Lombardy) …, and near Naples ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box 21): Dasiphora Desv. / saltuum Rnd. , ♂ / 1131 / Napoli; 3 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing head) ( MZUF: Box 21): Dasiphora Desv. / saltuum Rnd. ♂ / 1131; 2 ♀♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 21): Dasiphora Desv. / saltuum Rnd. ♀ / 1131; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box F): Dasiphora saltuum R., 411, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 411; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Dasiphora saltuum Rnd. 446 ♂ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. G-8 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 94): Dasiphora saltuum Rnd. , 549, ♂, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 152.1): syntype / Type / D. saltuum Ex. Coll. Big. / D. saltuum ♂, Europe, Rond.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Dasyphora albofasciata (Macquart in Webb & Berthelot, 1839) ( Pont 1986b: 105, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 12).

REMARKS: Rondani (1862d: 207) described Dasiphora saltuum , without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens but providing specific characters for the male, from material he had collected and also received from D’Arco and A. Costa. We found 11 syntypes in this study. This nominal species was described under the generic name Dasiphora , which is an “unjustified emendation of Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 71).