Lasia aenea Rondani, 1863

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 28

Lasia aenea Rondani, 1863

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1863: 75.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Chiliae [ Chile]” ( Rondani 1863: 75); “ prov. Santiago … Fusse der Cerro S. Cristóval ” ( Chile) ( Philippi 1865: 647).

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 specimen, syntype (sex not determinable, missing left wing), ( MZUN: Box with no identification label): Lasia rufipes West., Chili [= Chile] / M. Zool. N° 11081 .

CURRENT STATUS: valid species as Lasia aenea ( Philippi, 1865) ( González et al. 2018: 432) ; valid species as Lasia aenea Rondani, 1863 and senior synonym of Lasia aenea ( Philippi, 1865) (new synonymy, this work). See Remarks.

REMARKS: Rondani (1863: 75) attributed Lasia aenea to Philippi and considered it as a junior synonym of Lasia rufipes Westwood, 1848 . Philippi (1865: 647) described Panops aeneus on the same material. Röder (1882: 510) and Hunter (1901: 152) considered Lasia aenea ( Philippi, 1865) as a junior synonym of Lasia rufipes Westwood. Dunning (1877: 261) , Wulp (1882: 88), Reed (1888: 14), Brèthes (1908: 285), Kertész (1909a: 8) and Edwards (1930: 194) treated Lasia aenea ( Philippi, 1865) as a valid species while no author considered Lasia aenea Rondani, 1863 as a valid species. O’Hara et al. (2011: 206) considered the name Lasia aenea as available and attributed it to Rondani. González et al. (2018: 432) considered Lasia aenea ( Philippi, 1865) as a valid species and incorrectly Lasia aenea Rondani, 1863 as a nomen nudum. Since Lasia aenea Rondani, 1863 and Lasia aenea ( Philippi, 1865) are the same nominal species, we consider Lasia aenea Rondani as an available name and Panops aeneus Philippi, 1865 as a junior synonym of Lasia aenea Rondani, 1863 , new synonymy. We found one syntype of Lasia aenea (as Lasia rufipes ) in the MZUN.