Geomyza pictipennis Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 169-170

Geomyza pictipennis Rondani, 1875

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875a: 252.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensi, … in Insubria , Etruria et Pedemontio lecta : specimen gallicum etiam possideo [collected in the Parmese territory … Insubria (= Lombardy), Etruria (= Tuscany) and Piedmont ( Italy): I also have a specimen from Gallia (= France)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 34): Geomyza Mgn / pictipennis Rnd. , ♂, Insub. [= Insubria] / 1789 / Lectotypus [not designated] Geomyza pictipennis Rnd. , ♂, desig. Á. Soós, 1979 / Geomyza tripunctata Fall. , ♂, det. Á. Soós, 1979 / Geomyza pictipennis ; 1 ♂, paralectotype ( MZUF: Box 34): Geomyza Mgn / pictipennis Rnd. , ♂, Insub. [= Insubria] / 1789 / Paralectotypus [not designated] Geomyza pictipennis Rnd. , ♂, desig. Á. Soós, 1979 / Geomyza tripunctata Fall. , ♂, det. Á. Soós, 1979; 1 ♂, paralectotype (only part of the thorax, abdomen in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 34): Geomyza Mgn / pictipennis Rnd. , ♂, Insub. [= Insubria] / 1789 / Paralectotypus [not designated] Geomyza pictipennis Rnd. , ♂, desig. Á. Soós, 1979 / Geomyza tripunctata Fall. , ♂, det. Á. Soós, 1979; 1 ♂, paralectotype (missing head, terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 34): Geomyza Mgn / pictipennis Rnd. , ♂, Insub. [= Insubria] / 1789 / Paralectotypus [not designated] Geomyza pictipennis Rnd. , ♂, desig. Á. Soós, 1979 / Geomyza tripunctata Fall. , ♂, det. Á. Soós, 1979; 1 ♀, paralectotype (missing abdomen and legs) ( MZUF: Box 34): Geomyza Mgn / pictipennis Rnd. , ♀, Gallia, Parma / 1789 / Paralectotypus [not designated] Geomyza pictipennis Rnd. , ♀, desig. Á. Soós, 1979 / Geomyza tripunctata Fall. , ♀, det. Á. Soós, 1979 / Geomyza nartshukae Carles-Tolrá, 1993 , det., J.W.A. v. Zuijlen, 1995 (label pinned near the specimen); 1 ♀, paralectotype (missing left wing and both hind-legs, abdomen in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 34): Geomyza Mgn / pictipennis Rnd. , ♀, Gallia, Parma / 1789 / Paralectotypus [not designated] Geomyza pictipennis Rnd. , ♀, desig. Á. Soós, 1979 / Geomyza tripunctata Fall. , ♀, det. Á. Soós, 1979; 1 ♀, paralectotype (missing head, abdomen in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 34): Geomyza Mgn / pictipennis Rnd. , ♀, Gallia, Parma / 1789 / Paralectotypus [not designated] Geomyza pictipennis Rnd. , ♀, desig. Á. Soós, 1979 / Geomyza nartshukae Carles-Tolrá, 1993 , det. J.W.A. v. Zuijlen, 1995.

CURRENT STATUS: preoccupied by Thomson, 1868; junior synonym of Geomyza tripunctata Fallén, 1823 ( Soós 1984e: 56) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1875a: 252) described Geomyza pictipennis without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens he had collected. He also received one specimen from P.J.M. Macquart. Árpád Soós examined the MZUF type material in 1979 adding the label “ lectotypus ” and “ paralectotypus ” under the specimens, but did not publish the designation (E.P. Nartshuk & J.W.A. van Zuijlen, pers. comm., 2012). Van Zuijlen also studied the type material without publishing any results (J.W.A. van Zuijlen, pers. comm., February, 2013). We found seven MZUF syntypes in this study. In order to promote nomenclatural stability, we give credit to Á. Soós and here designate as a lectotype for Geomyza pictipennis Rondani, 1875 the male labeled as such by him.