Tephritis sejuncta Rondani, 1871

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 376-377

Tephritis sejuncta Rondani, 1871

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1871b: 9 (key), 18 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in tota Italia, … in Pedemontio; … in Etruria ; … in provinciis australioribus, … in collibus subapenninis ditionis parmensis [in all Italy, … Piedmont; … Etruria (= Tuscany); … the southern provinces, … Parmese sub-Apennines]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (missing left fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 31): Tephritis Latr. / sejuncta Rnd. / 1659 / lectotype ♀ [not designated], Tephritis sejuncta Rondani , det. B. Merz, 1992 / Synonym of Trypeta neesii Meigen , det. B. Merz, ‘92; 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one very moldy, the other completely covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 31): Tephritis Latr. / sejuncta Rnd. ♂ / 1659; 1 ♀, syntype (missing mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 31): Tephritis Latr. / sejuncta Rnd. ♀ / 1659; 4 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, syntypes ( MRSN): [labels not transcribed].

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Tephritis separata Rondani, 1871 ( Foote 1984: 133, White 1986: 156, Norrbom et al. 1999: 219).

REMARKS: Rondani (1871b: 18) described both sexes of Tephritis sejuncta without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens that he had collected and that he had also received from L. Bellardi, F.M. Piccioli and A. Costa. Bernard Merz examined the MZUF type material in 1992, adding the label “ lectotype ” under one female, without, as far as we know, publishing any lectotype designation. We found 13 syntypes in this study .