Limosina puerula Rondani, 1880

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 228

Limosina puerula Rondani, 1880

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1880: 23 (key), 36 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ a Bohemia … germanicum [ Bohemia (= Czech Republic) … from Germany]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype (covered with mold, double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin) ( MZUF: Box 37): Limosina Macq. / puerula Rnd. / 1948 / Asch 1.8.[18]73 / Lectotypus Limosina puerula Rond. , ♀, J. Roháček des. 1979 / Limosina bifrons Stenh., J. Roháček det.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 2 ♂♂ (covered with mold, each double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin) ( MZUF: Box 37): Limosina Macq. / puerula Rnd. / 1948 / Bozen, 12.6.[18]73 / Paralectotypus Limosina puerula Rond. , ♀, J. Roháček des. 1979 / Limosina bifrons Stenh., J. Roháček det.

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♀, 1 specimen (sex not determinable, abdomen folded, double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin) ( MZUF: Box 37): Limosina Macq. / puerula Rnd. / 1948 .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Limosina bifrons Stenhammar, 1854 ( Papp 1984d: 96) ; junior synonym of Spelobia bifrons (Stenhammar, 1854) ( Roháček 1983: 96, Roháček et al. 2001a: 253).

REMARKS: Rondani (1880: 36) described Limosina puerula without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length: “ Nondum in Italia lecta : specimina observavi a Clar. Kowartz a Bohemia missa , et unum germanicum a Clar. De Roder [Not yet collected in Italy: I observed specimens sent by Mr. Kowartz from Bohemia, and one from Germany by Mr. von Roder]”. Roháček (1983: 96) designated a lectotype (♀) and paralectotypes (2 ♂♂) but did not mention an additional two specimens in the MZUF (both of these additional specimens are paralectotypes). Roháček considered as a paralectotype one specimen labeled Bozen (formerly the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Italy).