Aspilia rupestris Rondani, 1866

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 141

Aspilia rupestris Rondani, 1866

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 87 (key), 89 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Apennino parmensi … in alpina plaga agri Tirolensis [Parmese Apennines ( Italy) … Tyrolean alpine locality]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: not found in this study. See Remarks.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Thricops nigrifrons ( Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) ( Pont 1986b: 68, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 10).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 89) described Aspilia rupestris from two females: “ Foeminam unicam legi … in Apennino parmensi, et aliam possideo … lectam a Prof. Strobel [I collected one female … in Parmese Apennines and have another one collected by Prof. Strobel]”. Rondani (1877c: 90) considered the female received from Strobel as a different species, which he named Spilogaster tirolensis . Hennig (1961: 228) incorrectly considered the specimen from “ Tirol ” [= Tyrol] as the type of Atherigona rupestris . We did not find the specimen from “Parma”, the true type of Aspilia rupestris but, under the name Atherigona rupestris in the MZUF, did find the single specimen from “ Tirol ” [= Tyrol], which we consider as the holotype of Spilogaster tirolensis .