Oxyna dracunculi Rondani, 1870

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 371-372

Oxyna dracunculi Rondani, 1870

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1870c: 121 (key), 124 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Scandinavia meridionali & media …in Scania ad Tranås, Raflunda, Esperöd, Stenshufvud, Widtsköfle … Beckaskog, …. in Smolandia … in Ostrogothia ad Wadstena; in Westrogothia … in Gotlandia ad Wamlingbo, Stenkyrka, Fårön … in Uplandia ad Holmiam … in Norvegia ad Christianiam … e Dania …. ad Sedinum … ad Zirkov in Rugia & ad Gryphiam [southern and central Scandinavia… Scania in Tranås, Ravlunda, Äsperöd, Stenshufvud, Widtsköfle … Backaskog, … Småland … Östergötland in Vadstena; Västergötland … Gotland in Wamlingbo, Stenkyrka, Fårö … Uplandia in Stockholm … Norway in Christiania [= Oslo] … Denmark … in Szczecin … Zirkow in Rügen and in Greifswald]” ( Zetterstedt 1847: 2241) [localities for Trypeta absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) sensu Zetterstedt (1847) ]; Schiner (1862b) gave no locality in his redescription of Tephritis absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) but presumably it is Austria because the work deals with Austrian species; “ Gallicum [from Gallia (= France)]” ( Rondani 1870c: 124) [type locality for Oxyna dracunculi Rondani, 1870 ].

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (damaged by the pin, terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 31): Oxyna Desv. / dracunculi Rondani / 1638 / holotype Oxyna dracunculi Rondani , ♂, det., B. Merz, 1991 / Paroxina absinthii (Fab.) det. I.M. White, 1986 / Synonym of Tephritis punctella Fallén , det. B. Merz, 1991; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / [whitish label] / [red label] / T. absinthii ♂, [illegible word] / [illegible label] / Type no. 6676: 2; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes (pinned together) ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / [whitish label] / [red label] / Type no. 6676: 3 / Type no. 6676: 4; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / [yellow label] / [illegible word] / parvula / Type no. 6676: 5; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right fore- and mid-legs and left hind-leg) ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / [blue label] / parvula / Type no. 6676: 6; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid-leg) ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / 34 / Staeg. [= Staeger] / parvula / Type no. 6676: 7; 1 ♂, syntype (slightly covered with mold, missing head and fore-legs) ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / 149 / punctella ♂ Staeg. [= Staeger] / Type no. 6676: 8; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / [blue label] / T. absinthii ♀ Esp. Scan. [= Äsperöd Scania] / parvula / Type no. 6676: 9; 2 specimens, syntypes (sex not determinable, pinned together, one missing abdomen, left mid- and both fore-legs; one missing abdomen, all legs and left wing) ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / [blue label] / parvula / Type no. 6676: 10 / Type no. 6676: 11; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes (pinned together; female missing left wing) ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / Type no. 6676:12 / Type no. 6676: 13; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZLU: Box 37): 154. Tephritis Latr. / [blue label] / [red label] / Type no. 6676: 14.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Paroxyna punctella (Fallén, 1814) ( Foote 1984: 116) ; junior synonym of Paroxyna absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) ( White 1986: 151) ; junior synonym of Campiglossa absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) ( Norrbom et al. 1999: 108) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1870c: 124) proposed Oxyna dracunculi for Trypeta absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) sensu Zetterstedt (1847: 2241) and Tephritis absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) sensu Schiner (1862b: 155) , which he considered a new species. We did not consider Schiner’s redescription (1858: 670) of Trypeta absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) because he stated not having any specimen. Schiner (1862b: 155) redescribed Tephritis absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) from some specimens of his collection. Rondani referred to Zetterstedt’s redescription of Tephritis absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) and to Schiner’s redescription of Tephritis absinthii ( Fabricius, 1805) (both redescriptions were based on an unspecified number of specimens) and to a single specimen in his collection received from Bigot: “ unicum exemplar possideo [I have a single specimen]”. Therefore, the type material should be in the collections of Zetterstedt (MZLU), Schiner (NHMW) and Rondani. We found 14 syntypes in this study. No specimen labeled as Tephritis absinthii is present in Schiner’s collection in the NHMW (P. Sehnal, pers. comm., September 2019). Rondani stated that the single specimen of his collection does not fit Loew’s redescriptions (1844: 394, 1862: 93) of Trypeta absinthii . For this reason, we do not consider the specimens of Tephritis absinthii in Loew’s collection (MNHUB) as types of Oxyna dracunculi .