Spixosoma mucronata Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 97

Spixosoma mucronata Rondani, 1857

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 224 (key), 225 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus subapenninis ditionis Parmensis …. In Pedemontio [Parmese sub-Apennine hills … Piedmont ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one male and one female pinned together) ( MZUF: Box 8): Sphixosoma [sic!] Rndn. / mucronata Rnd. , ♂ ♀ / 378; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUF: Box B): Sphixosoma [sic!] R. mucronata R., 134, ♀, Parma / 393 134; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Spixosoma mucronata R. ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 4, posiz. E-4 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 100): Sphixosoma [sic!] mucronata R., 4, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype ( OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll.: Box. 1): Type / C. mucronatus Coll. Big. / syntype / C. mucronatus ♂ id. vitellinus Loew ? Schin. Europe Sphyxosoma id. Rond. / Conops ; 1 ♂, syntype ( OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll. Box. 1): Rondani Typ. / Sphixosoma mucronata Rd. / sec. typ. Rondanii / C. mucronata E. Kow. / vitellinus / syntype / C. mucronatus ♂ id vitellinus Loew ? Schin. Europe, Sphyxosoma id. Rond. / Conops .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Conops vitellinus Loew, 1847 ( Chvála & Smith 1988: 251, Stuke 2017: 51).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 225) described Sphixosoma mucronata , without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens, from material he had collected and also received from L. Bellardi. This nominal species was described under the generic name Spixosoma , which is an “unjustified emendation of Sphyxosoma Rondani, 1856 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 170). Stuke (2017: 51) only reported the three male and three female syntypes in the MZUF and did not mention those in the other collections. We found ten syntypes in this study.