Tetanocera nigricosta Rondani, 1868

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 218-219

Tetanocera nigricosta Rondani, 1868

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868c: 217 (key), 223 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in apennino … pedemontanam [Apennines … Piedmont ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype (antennae and abdomen on two slides, missing right fore-leg) ( MZUF: Box 29): Tetanocera Dmrl / nigricosta Rnd. , ♀, Parma / 1514 / Type / T. nigricosta Rond., J. Verbeke det., 1963.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♀ ( MZUF: Box 29): Tetanocera Dmrl / nigricosta Rnd. , Parma / 1514.

SLIDES: Female genitalia on slide n° 13 (Box Diptera Rondani 2): Tetanocera nigricosta Rond., Coll. Rondani n° 1514, Parma, J. Verbeke det., 1963, Tetanocera nigricosta Rond. , Type ♀, J. Verbeke det., 1963. Abdomen on slide n° 17 (Box Diptera Rondani 2): Tetanocera nigricosta Rond., Coll. Rondani n° 1514, Parma, J. Verbeke det., 1963, Tetanocera nigricosta Rond. , Type ♀, J. Verbeke det., 1963. Antenna on slide n° 18 (Box Diptera Rondani 2): Tetanocera nigricosta Rond., Coll. Rondani n° 1514, Parma, J. Verbeke det., 1963, Tetanocera nigricosta Rond. , Type ♀, J. Verbeke det., 1963.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species ( Steyskal 1965: 694), junior synonym of Tetanocera elata (Fabricius, 1781) ( Rozkošný & Elberg 1984: 190, Rivosecchi 1992a: 246).

REMARKS: Rondani (1868c: 223) described Tetanocera nigricosta from two females: “ Foeminas duas tantum possideo, unam in apennino lectam , alteram in collectione Mussino extantem [I have only two females, one collected in the Apennines, the other is in Mussino’s collection]”, one he had collected and one received from G. Mussino. Verbeke (1964a: 10) unambiguously identified the type (the female labeled as such), which therefore must be considered as the lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.5), but did not mention the additional MZUF female numbered “1514” (this additional specimen is a paralectotype).