Lauxaniidae

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 129

Lauxaniidae

Lauxaniidae is one the richest family of acalyptrate flies with 1,940 species described ( Evenhuis & Pape 2020). It is found worldwide but predominantly in South America and Southeast Asia ( Marshall 2012). In his “ Stirps Sciomyzinae ”, rather than in the family Lauxaniidae proposed by Macquart (1835), Rondani (1848 b, 1863, 1868 c, 1877c) described 15 Palaearctic, two Neotropical and one Afrotropical nominal species of Sapromyza Fallén, 1810 . Ten are currently considered as valid, six as junior synonyms, two are not included in any recent catalog ( Miller 1980, Papp 1984 a, Nartshuk et al. 1995, Merz 2003, 2004, V. Silva, pers. comm. 2013, Carles-Tolrá 2019). Rondani (1868c) proposed one name in synonymy and 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: Papp (1981) for Sapromyza acuticornis Rondani, 1886 , Sapromyza palpella Rondani, 1868 , Sapromyza plumicheta Rondani, 1868 , Sapromyza punctiventris Rondani, 1868 and Sapromyza tinctiventris Rondani, 1868 , Merz (2004) for Sapromyza tabidiventris Rondani, 1877 and Carles-Tolrá (2019) for Sapromyza punctifrons Rondani, 1868 . The type material has been recovered for all nominal species and is distributed among the MZUF (12), MRSN (seven), MZUN (three), OUMNH (one) and MZLU (one).