Phytomyptera halidayana Rondani, 1872

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 347

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4982300
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scientific name	Phytomyptera halidayana Rondani, 1872
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1872b: 108.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Sicilia [Sicily ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing left fore- and right hind-legs, double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin) ( MZUF: Box 9): Phytomyptera Rnd. / halidayana Rnd. / Sicil. / 450.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Thrixion aberrans (Schiner 1861) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 174) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1872b: 108) described Phytomyptera halidayana , without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material received from A.H. Haliday. We found one syntype in this study.