Fanniidae (Rondani, 1877)

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

Fanniidae

This family, formerly considered a subfamily of Muscidae ( Sabrosky 1999, Marshall 2012), contains more than 350 species ( Evenhuis & Pape 2020). Rondani (1866a, 1868b, 1871a, 1877c) described 13 Palaearctic and one South American nominal species in his “ Stirps Anthomyinae ”. The family Fanniidae was proposed by Schnabl & Dziedzicki (1911). Three of these are currently considered as valid, one as a senior (but invalid) synonym, and ten as junior synonyms ( Pont 1972, 1986a, 2002, Gorodkov et al. 1995, Carvalho et al. 2003). Hennig (1961: 226) examined the type material in the MZUF without publishing any lectotype designation. Rondani (1866a) proposed one name in synonymy and was not made available by use as a valid species before 1961; Costa (1866) listed one unpublished name (nomen nudum) of Rondani. Except for the type material of Homalomyia carbonaria , which is presumed lost, and for the syntypes of five species in the OUMNH and three in the MSNC, the type material has been recovered for all nominal species and is in the MZUF.