Bolithomyza spinulina Rondani, 1856

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 164

Bolithomyza spinulina Rondani, 1856

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1856: 197.

TYPE LOCALITY: Rondani gave no type locality in his original description but presumably it is Italy because the work deals with Italian species .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 specimens, syntypes (sex not determinable, one missing abdomen and legs, the other glued to a cardboard stage and completely covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 64): Bolithomyza Rnd. / spinulina Rnd., Parm. / 3295.

CURRENT STATUS: Hackman et al. (1988) did not list it; doubtful species of Mycetophilidae (P. Chandler, per. comm., December 2013).

REMARKS: Rondani’s (1856: 197) key for the genus Bolithomyza Rondani, 1856 lists Bolithomyza spinulina as its type species, but he did not provide a detailed description, type locality, number or sex of the specimens. Two syntypes were found in this study. Hackman et al. (1988: 295) incorrectly considered the genus Bolithomyza as a nomen nudum ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 38) and did not list the species Bolithomyza spinulina . Peter Chandler (pers. comm., December 2013) considered Bolithomyza spinulina as doubtful species because the identification of the species depends on the structure of the male terminalia and cannot be carried out on the basis of Rondani’s description.