Clairvillia dispar Rondani, 1856

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 297

Clairvillia dispar Rondani, 1856

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1856: 75.

TYPE LOCALITY: Robineau-Desvoidy (1824: 254) gave no type locality in his original description of Phanemya musca Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 but presumably it is France because the work deals with French species .

TYPE MATERIAL: see Remarks.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Clairvillia biguttata ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 421) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1856: 75) considered the new nominal species Clairvillia dispar , rather than Clairvillia pusilla Meigen, 1824 sensu Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , as the type species of the genus Clairvillia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 . He later ( Rondani 1861e: 86) considered the males of Phanemya musca Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 and the females of Clairvillia pusilla Meigen sensu Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 as belonging to the same species but, instead of applying the Principle of Priority, incorrectly proposed the species name Clairvillia dispar . It has always been considered as a synonym of Clairvillia biguttata ( Meigen, 1824) ( Bezzi & Stein 1907: 331, Herting 1969: 194), never as a valid species. The type material for Clairvillia dispar will be the same as for the name it was proposed to replace, i. e., Phanemya musca . There is no type of this latter species in the MNHN where the Robineau-Desvoidy’s collection is preserved (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 2020). Under the name Clairvillia dispar there are one male and one female (all are non-types) in the MSNC.