Myobia discreta Rondani, 1861

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/686387A0-FE82-FEE4-5889-FF1BFA3B63D1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Myobia discreta Rondani, 1861
status

Treatment

Myobia discreta Rondani, 1861 View in CoL

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 49 (key), 52 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensi , … In Insubria [Parmese territory, … Insubria (= Lombardy) ( Italy)]”. See remarks .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (covered with mold, missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 15): Myobia Desv. / discreta Rnd. , ♂, spreta Mcq. / 792; 3 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right fore-, left mid- and both hind-legs; one with head partially eaten by dermestids, missing left mid- and hind-legs; one dirty, missing left fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 15): Myobia Desv. / discreta Rnd. , ♀ / 792; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore- and left mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box D): Myobia discreta Rnd. , 294, ♀, Parma / 393 294; 1 ♀, syntype (missing left mid- and hind legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Myobia discreta Rnd. 114 ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-7 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Bithia spreta ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 340) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 52) described both sexes of Myobia discreta without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens that he had collected and that he had also received from P.J.M. Macquart and K. von Roser (under the name Myobia spreta ( Meigen, 1824)) and G. Galeazzi. We found six syntypes in this study.