Sphiximorpha garibaldii Rondani, 1860

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 269

Sphiximorpha garibaldii Rondani, 1860

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1860c: 145 (key) (as “ Garibaldi ”), 145 (description (as “ Garibaldii ”).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus ditionis parmensis [ Parmese hills ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, holotype (wings glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen, abdomen partially eaten by dermestids) ( MZUF: Box 8): Sphiximorpha Rndn. / garibaldii Rnd. / 372.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Peck, 1988: 180; Belcari et al., 1995a: 17; Steenis et al. 2016: 193).

REMARKS: Rondani (1860c: 145) described Sphiximorpha garibaldii from a single male: “ Unicum exemplar inveni [I found a single male]”. Rondani (1860c: 145) spelled this nominal species as “ Garibaldi ” in his key and as “ Garibaldii ” in his description. Bezzi & Stein (1907: 157), Sack (1932: 343), Peck (1988: 180), Belcari et al. (1995a: 17), Ricarte et al. (2012: 18), Steenis et al. (2016: 193) and Prokhorov et al. (2020: 24) used the name “ garibaldii ”. O’Hara et al. (2011: 209) and Prokhorov et al. (2020: 24) used the name “ garibaldi ”. Acting as First Revisers (according to I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 24.2.3), we here select “ garibaldi ” as an incorrect original spelling. Ricarte et al. (2012: 18) incorrectly reported the holotype (♂) in the MNHUB.