Yetodesia lateritia Rondani, 1866

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 159-160

Yetodesia lateritia Rondani, 1866

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 96 (key), 107 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensi. … Ab Etruria [Parmese territory … Etruria (= Tuscany) ( Italy)]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing right mid-leg), 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right fore-leg, covered with mold, the other missing left fore-leg) (MZUF: Box 23): Yetodesia Rnd. / lateritia Rnd. / 1197; 1 ♂, syntype (missing mid-legs) (MZUF: Box G): Yetodesia lateritia R., 458, ♂, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 458; 1 ♂, syntype (left fore- and right hind-legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Yetodesia lateritia R. 486 ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 6, posiz. C-5 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype (MSNPV: Box 94): Yetodesia lateritia Rnd. , 613, ♂, Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Mydaea lateritia ( Pont 1986b: 156, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 14).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 107) described both sexes of Yetodesia lateritia without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, despite there being seven specimens in the type series found in this study, from material he had collected and also received from F.M. Piccioli.