Sarcophaga privigna Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 204-205

Sarcophaga privigna Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861g: 380 (key), 387 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ In tota Italia [in all Italy]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / privigna Rnd. , ♂ / 1011 / S. albiceps ♂ Meig. , det. Böttcher / lectotype ♂, S. privigna Rond., T. Pape det., 1986 / Parasarcophaga albiceps (Mg.) , T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (dirty, terminalia glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / privigna Rnd. , ♂ / 1011 / Malta / S. tuberosa sec. Type ♂ Pand., det. Böttcher / paralectotype; 2 ♂♂ (partially eaten by dermestids) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / privigna Rnd. , ♂ / 1011 / paralectotype.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (MZUF: Box C): Sarcophaga privigna R., 369, ♂, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 369; 1 ♂ (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sarcophaga privigna Rnd. 394 ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. C-3 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂ (MSNPV: Box 95): Sarcophaga privigna Rnd. , 489, ♂, Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Sarcophaga (Parasarcophaga) albiceps Meigen, 1826 ( Verves 1986: 170, Pape 1988: 13, Pape 1996: 374; Krčmar et al. 2019: 142).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861g: 387) described Sarcophaga privigna from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths. In his redescription of Sarcophaga privigna Rondani (1862d: 109) specified the type locality: “ in agri parmensis collibus [Parmese hills] … Insubricum [Insubrian (= Lombardy) Alps] ... ab Insula Melita [from Malta Island]”. Pape (1988: 13) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (3 ♂♂) but did not mention an additional three males: one in the MZUF, one in the MSNC, and one in the MSNPV (all are paralectotypes).