Heteropterina multipunctata Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 192

Heteropterina multipunctata Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 211.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensi … In Insula Melita [Parmese territory ( Italy) … Malta Island]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing left mid- and hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 14): Heteropterina Mcq. / multipunctata Rnd. ♂ / 707 / lectotype ♂ Heteropterina multipunctata Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986 / Taxigramma multipunctata (R.), T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 2 ♀♀ (one missing right fore- and mid-legs) ( MZUF: Box 14): Heteropterina Mcq. / multipunctata Rnd. / 707 / paralectotype; 1 ♀ (missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 14): Heteropterina Mcq. / multipunctata Rnd. / 707 / Malta.

PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (missing right fore-leg) (MZUF: Box D): Heteropterina multipunctata Rn. , 266, Apenn. [= Apennines] / 393 266; 1 specimen (sex not determinable, missing left mid-leg, abdomen partially eaten by dermestids) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Heteropterina Macq. multipunctata R 85 Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. G-19 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Paragusia multipunctata ( Verves 1986: 101) ; valid species, as Taxigramma multipunctatum ( Pape 1988: 11, Pape et al. 1995: 12, Pape 1996: 154; Krčmar et al. 2019: 114).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 211) described both sexes of Heteropterina multipunctata , without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens, that he had collected and also that he had received from A. Schembri. Pape (1988: 11) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (3 ♀♀) but did not mention an additional male in the MZUF (Box D) and a specimen (sex not-determinable) in the MSNC (both these additional specimens are paralectotypes). Rondani (1859b: 211) stated he sent a specimen of this nominal species labeled Metopilla multipunctata to Macquart in 1844. Rondani (1859b: 211) indicated that Macquart (1850: 522) used the name Taxigramma instead of Metopilla . Later Macquart (1854: 426) changed Taxigramma to Heteropterina ( Evenhuis & Pape 2014: 148) . No specimen under the name Heteropterina multipunctata or Taxigramma multipunctata are present in the MNHN (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 2020) or the MHNL (O. Boilly, pers. comm., May 2019) where Macquart’s collection is preserved.