Ciphocera pyrrogaster Rondani, 1859

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

Ciphocera pyrrogaster Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 61.

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

TYPE MATERIAL: 10 ♀♀ (only seven of them are syntypes but they are not labeled as such) with the following labels: 5 ♀♀ (one missing left mid-leg; one missing right fore-leg; one missing fore- and left mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 10), Cyphocera [sic!] Mcq. / pyrrogaster Rnd. , ♀ / 503; 1 ♀ (dirty) ( MZUF: Box E), Cyphocera [sic!] pyrrogaster R., 179, ♀, Parma / 393 179; 1 ♀ (missing both fore- and left mid-legs abdomen eaten by dermestids) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I), Cyphocera [sic!] pyrogaster [sic!] R., 8 ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. A-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀ ( MSNPV: Box 97), Cyphocera [sic!] pyrrogaster Rnd. , 60, ♀, Parma; 1 ♀ ( OUMNH: General Collection), syntype / Rondani Typ. / sec. typ. Rondanii / Palpibraca pyrrogaster Rd / P. pyrrogaster Ex. Coll. Kow. / Peleteria varia ( Fabricius, 1794) det. Herting / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Tachininae Peleteria varia ( Fabricius, 1794) Palearctic ; 1 ♀ ( OUMNH: General Collection), syntype / P. pyrrogaster Ex. Coll. Big. / Peleteria varia ( Fabricius, 1794) det. Herting / C. pyrrogaster Palpibraca id Rond. Italia, Rondani / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Tachininae Peleteria varia ( Fabricius, 1794) , Palearctic.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Peleteria varia ( Fabricius, 1794) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 279) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 61) described Ciphocera pyrrogaster from seven females: “ foeminas septem inveni [I found seven females]”. We found six females in the MZUF, one in the MSNC, one in the MSNPV and two in the OUMNH: these specimens did not have any label indicating their type status. We are unable to single out the seven females upon which Rondani based his description. We leave the recognition of the seven female syntypes to a future specialist. Two MZUF males numbered “503” are not included in the type series because of their sex. Rondani described this nominal species under the generic name “ Ciphocera ”, which is an “incorrect subsequent spelling of Cuphocera Macquart, 1845 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 68).