Sarcophaga soror Rondani, 1861

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 208

Sarcophaga soror Rondani, 1861

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861g: 379 (key), 386 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Italia media et boreali [central and boreal (= northern) Italy]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (slightly moldy, missing left mid-leg, dissected terminalia glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / soror Rnd. , ♂ / 1007 / = soror s. Typ. Pand. det Böttcher / lectotype ♂, S. soror Rond., T. Pape det., 1986 / Pierretia soror (Rond.) , T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 4 ♂♂ ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / soror Rnd. , ♂ / 1007 / paralectotype; 1 ♂ (missing head), 1 ♀ (couple pinned together) ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / soror Rnd. , ♀ / 1007 / paralectotype; 2 ♀♀ ( MZUF: Box 19): Sarcophaga Mgn / soror Rnd. , ♀ / 1007 / paralectotype.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (MZUF: Box C): Sarcophaga soror Rnd. , 366, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 366; 1 ♂ (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sarcophaga soror R. ♂ ♀ 391 Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. B-14 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀ (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sarcophaga soror R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. B-15 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Sarcophaga (Pierretia) soror ( Verves 1986: 143, Pape 1988: 15, Pape et al. 1995: 15); junior secondary homonym of Myophora soror Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ( Pape 1996: 366) ; valid species, as Pierretia soror ( Povolný & Verves 1997: 198) ; valid species, as Sarcophaga (Myorhina) soror ( Krčmar et al. 2019: 140) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1861g: 386) described both sexes of Sarcophaga soror without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, but presumably from more than one specimen because he stated: “ non rara [not rare]”. In his redescription of Sarcophaga soror, Rondani (1862d: 107) specified the type locality: “ in collibus et montuosis agri parmensis [Parmese hills and mountains]”. Pape (1988: 15) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (5 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀) but did not mention an additional four specimens: two in the MZUF and two in the MSNC (all are paralectotypes).