Prosena epicurea Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 349

Prosena epicurea Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861d: 280 (key), 281 (description).

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid- and hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 18): Prosena Servill. / epicurea Rnd. longirostris Egg., ♂ / 978; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 18): Prosena Servill. / epicurea Rnd. longirostris Egg., ♂ / 978 / Varal. [= Varallo (= Vercelli, Italy)]; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 18): Prosena Servill. / epicurea Rnd. longirostris Egg., ♂ / 94 / 978; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing mid-legs, the other its right fore- and left mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 18): Prosena Servill. / epicurea Rnd. longirostris Egg., ♀ / 978; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box C): Prosena F.S. Serv. epicurea R., 354, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 354; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left fore- and right mid-legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Prosena epicurea Rnd. 178 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. H-1 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore- and both mid-legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Prosena epicurea Rnd. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. H-2 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Prosena siberita ( Fabricius, 1775) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 367) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861d: 281) described both sexes of Prosena epicurea without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens, but presumably from more than one specimen because he stated: “ Vulgaris in tota Italia [Common in all Italy]”. We found nine syntypes in this study .