Paragus majoranae Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 262-263

Paragus majoranae Rondani, 1857

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 188 (key), 192 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensis ” [ Parmese territory ( Italy)] .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 7): Paragus Latr. / majoranae Rnd. , ♂, Parm. / 338 / Lecto-Paratypus [incorrectly designated], Goeldlin design.; 1 ♂, syntype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 7): Paragus Latr. / majoranae Rnd. , ♂, Parm. / 338 / P. bradescui det. Sommaggio; 1 ♂, syntype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 7): Paragus Latr. / majoranae Rnd. , ♂, Parm. / 338 / Lecto-paratypus [incorrectly designated] / P. bradescui det. Sommaggio; 1 ♀, syntype ( MZUF: Box 7): Paragus Latr. / majoranae Rnd. / 338; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes (couple pinned together) ( MZUF: Box B): Paragus Latr. majoranae R., 116, Parma / 393 116.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Peck 1988: 81, Belcari et al. 1995a: 10, Sommaggio 2002: 55).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 192) described both sexes of Paragus majoranae without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of length. Goeldlin de Tiefenau (1976: 96) incorrectly designated a lectotype (♂) from “Sicil [= Sicily]”, which is not the type locality and reported finding only two males at MZUF. We found six syntypes in this study: four males and two females. Sommaggio (2002) demonstrated that the name majoranae had been until then wrongly applied to the species now referred to as Paragus pecchiolii Rondani, 1857 . Sommaggio (2002: 54) considered Paragus gorgus Vujić & Radenković, 1999 the same as “ Paragus majoranae” sensu Goeldlin de Tiefenau (1976: 96) , which is exemplified by the specimen invalidly designated by him as lectotype. We leave any further lectotype designation to future specialists.