Homalomya brevis Rondani, 1866

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 112

Homalomya brevis Rondani, 1866

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 125 (key), 132 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensis … ab insula Melita [Parmese hills ( Italy) … Malta Island]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, syntypes (mostly covered by mold; one couple pinned together) ( MZUF: Box 25): Homalomyia B.é Myiantha [sic!] Rnd. / brevis Rnd. , ♂ Parma / 1344; 3 ♀♀, syntypes ( MZUF: Box 25): Homalomyia B.é Myiantha [sic!] Rnd. / brevis Rnd. , ♀ Parma / 1344; 1 ♀, syntype ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 146.6): syntype / Typ. Rd. brevis / sec. typ. Rondanii / H. brevis Ex. Coll. Kow. / Fanniidae Fannia leucosticta ( Meigen, 1838) (syn: brevis Rondani 1866 ) Cosmopolitan; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 146.6): syntype / Type / H. brevis Ex. Coll. Big. / Fanniidae Fannia leucosticta ( Meigen, 1838) (syn: brevis Rondani 1866 ) Cosmopolitan.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Fannia leucosticta ( Meigen, 1838) ( Pont 1986a: 50, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 9).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 132) described both sexes of Homalomya brevis without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length: “ copulam et mares paucos legi … et specimina duo mascula ab insula melita misit Doct. Schembri [I collected a pair and a few males … and Dr. Schembri sent me two specimens from Malta Island]”. We found nine syntypes in this study. An additional three males and five females in the MZUF numbered “1344” are not included in the type series because their labels are yellowish rather than the greenish color of Rondani’s original handwritten ones and are in a lower row in the Box, for which reason we treat them to be subsequent additions. This nominal species was described under the generic name Homalomya , which is an “unjustified emendation of Homalomyia Bouché, 1834 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 97) and that Rondani (1866a: 123; 1877c: 42) considered as a senior synonym of Myantha Rondani, 1856 .