Miltogramma punctatella Rondani, 1868

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 196-197

Miltogramma punctatella Rondani, 1868

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868a: 40.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in colle agri parmensis [Parmese hill ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype (missing mid- and hind-legs, abdomen glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen) (MZUF: Box 14): Miltogramma Mgn / punctatella Rnd. / 718 / holotype ♀ Miltogramma punctatella Rnd., ♀, T. Pape det., 1986 / Senotainia albifrons (Rnd.) , T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sphixapata albifrons Rnd . 94 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. H-11 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa , Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani ; 1 ♀ ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Sphixapata albifrons Rnd . ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. H-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa , Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Miltogramma punctatum Meigen, 1824 ( Verves 1986: 75) ; junior synonym of Senotainia albifrons (Rondani, 1859) ( Pape 1988: 14, 1996: 134).

REMARKS: Rondani (1868a: 40) described Miltogramma punctatella from just the female sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “(Foem.) … semel capta [(Fem.[ale]) … collected once]”. Pape (1988: 14) reported a ‘holotype’ in the MZUF without knowing of two additional syntypes (one male and one female) in the MSNC, which brings the original syntype series to three specimens. In his original description, Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single female specimen, therefore Pape’s reference to a ‘holotype’ specimen must be considered as a lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). The additional syntypes in the MSNC not examined by Pape are paralectotypes.