Lomachantha parra Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 326

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4982191
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scientific name	Lomachantha parra Rondani, 1859
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 151.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in ditione parmensi [ Parmese territory ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing left mid- and hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 12): Lomacantha [sic!] Rnd. / parra Rnd. / 582; 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold, missing mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 12): Lomacantha [sic!] Rnd. / parra Rnd. / 583; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box D): Lomacantha [sic!] R. parra R., 236, ♂, Parma / 393 236; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Lomachantha parra R. 53 ♂ Apenn. [= Apennines] / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. E-7 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 164, Pape et al. 1995: 18, Cerretti 2010: 146, O’Hara et al. 2020: 245).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 151) described both sexes of Lomachantha parra without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths. The males and one female in the MZUF have different identification numbers. We found five syntypes in this study .