Myobia glirina Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 336

Myobia glirina Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 49 (key), 51 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in planitie et montuosis agri parmensis … In Etruria [Parmese plains and mountains … Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one covered with mold, abdomen glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen; one covered with mold, missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 15): Myobia Desv. / glirina Rnd. , ♂ / 790; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right fore- and both mid-legs, the other missing left fore- and both mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 15): Myobia Desv. / glirina Rnd. , ♀ / 790; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUF: Box D): Myobia glirina Rnd. , 292, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 292; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Myobia glirina Rnd. 113 ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-6 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 96): Myobia glirina Rndn. , 184, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUB: Box 237): 23 35 / Myobia glirina Rond. , ex a. parmensi / glirina Rndn. , Parma; 1 ♂, syntype (missing both fore-legs and left mid-leg) ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 166.5): syntype / Type / M. glirina Ex. Coll. Big. / Bithia glirina (Rondani, 1861) det. Herting / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachininae Bithia glirina (Rondani, 1861) , Palaearctic.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Bithia glirina ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 339, Pape et al. 1995: 27, Cerretti 2010: 395, O’Hara et al. 2020: 680).

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 51) described both sexes of Myobia glirina without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material he had collected and also received from F.M. Piccioli. We found nine syntypes in this study.