Sphaeroceridae (Papp, 1984)

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 221

Sphaeroceridae

This worldwide family of acalyptrate flies contains almost 1600 species ( Evenhuis & Pape 2020) but presumably there are many more, predominantly tropical, ones waiting to be described ( Marshall 2012). In his “ Stirps Copromyzinae ” rather than in the family Sphaeroceridae proposed by Macquart (1835), Rondani (1868b, 1880) described 24 Palaearctic and one South America nominal species. Ten of these are currently considered as valid and 15 are junior synonyms ( Roháček 1983, Papp 1984 d, Norrbom & Kim 1986, Munari 1991, Canzoneri et al. 1995, Roháček & Marshall 2000, Roháček et al. 2001b, 2001 a, Marshall et al. 2011, Papp 2012, Kits & Marshall 2013). Rondani (1880) also proposed one new name in synonymy that was not made available by use as a valid species before 1961. Dipterists who have examined the type material in the MZUF and designated lectotypes are: Norrbom & Kim (1986) for Borborus limbinervis Rondani, 1880 and Borborus nigriceps Rondani, 1880 , Roháček (1982) for Limosina caenosa Rondani, 1880 , Limosina roralis Rondani, 1880 , Roháček (1983) for Limosina akka Rondani, 1880 , Limosina exigua Rondani, 1880 , Limosina fulviceps Rondani, 1880 , Limosina liliputana Rondani, 1880 , Limosina luteilabris Rondani, 1880 , Limosina nana Rondani, 1880 , Limosina puerula Rondani, 1880 , Limosina retracta Rondani, 1880 , Roháček (1991) for Limosina cilifera Rondani, 1880 , Limosina simplicimana Rondani, 1880 , Roháček & Marshall (2000) for Limosina ciliosa Rondani, 1880 . Allen L. Norrbom examined the type material of the nominal species of the genus Sphaerocera without publishing any results. Villeneuve (1914, 1918) and Kits & Marshall (2013) examined the type material in the MZUF without publishing any lectotype designation. Except for the type material of Sphaerocera pallidimana , which has been destroyed, the type material has been recovered for all nominal species and is distributed among the MZUF (24), OUMNH (two), MZUB (one) and MZLU (one).