Limosina caenosa Rondani, 1880

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 224-225

Limosina caenosa Rondani, 1880

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1880: 23 (key), 38 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in montuosis Italiae centralis [mountains in central Italy]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 37): Limosina Macq. / caenosa [words not interpreted] / 1952 / Lectotypus Limosina caenosa Rond. , ♂, J. Roháček des. 1981.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 2 ♂♂ (both covered with mold, terminalia of one in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 37): Limosina Macq. / caenosa [words not interpreted] / 1952 / Paralectotypus Limosina caenosa Rond. , ♂, J. Roháček des. 1981; 2 ♀♀ (covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 37): Limosina Macq. / caenosa [words not interpreted] / 1952 / Paralectotypus Limosina caenosa Rond. , ♀, J. Roháček des. 1981.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Leptocera caenosa ( Papp 1984d: 90, Canzoneri et al. 1995: 22, Roháček et al. 2001a: 151, Marshall et al. 2011: 245, Papp 2012: 231).

REMARKS: Rondani (1880: 38) described Limosina caenosa without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths. Roháček (1982: 33) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀).