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

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scientific name	Paragus majoranae Rondani, 1857
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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.