Botanophila varicolor ( Meigen, 1826 )

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 39

Chorthophila impudica Rondani, 1866

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1866a: 161 (key), 173 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensis … exemplar masculum alpinum [ Parmese hills ( Italy) … male specimen from the Alps]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 23): Chorthophila Mcq. / impudica Rnd. , Parma / 1236 / ♂ / lectotype [not designated] ♂, Chorthophila [sic!] impudica Rond. , det. V. Michelsen, 1985 / Botanophila impudica Rd. , ♂, V. Michelsen det., 1985; 2 ♂♂, paralectotypes (terminalia in a microvial pinned below each specimen) ( MZUF: Box 23): Chorthophila Mcq. / impudica Rnd. , Parma / 1236 / ♂ / paralectotype [not designated] ♂, Chorthophila [sic!] impudica Rond. , det. V. Michelsen, 1985 / Botanophila impudica Rd. , ♂, V. Michelsen det., 1985; 1 ♂, paralectotype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) ( MZUF: Box 23): Chorthophila Mcq. / impudica Rnd. , Parma / 1236 / ♂ / Botanophila varicolor Meigen = Chorthophila impudica Rondani , syntypen / paralectotype [not designated] ♂, Chorthophila [sic!] impudica Rond. , det. V. Michelsen, 1985 / Botanophila varicolor Mg., V. Michelsen det., 1985; 1 ♀, paralectotype ( MZUF: Box 23): Chorthophila Mcq. / impudica Rnd. , Parma / 1236 / ♀ / paralectotype [not designated] ♀, Chorthophila [sic!] impudica Rond. , det. V. Michelsen, 1985 / Botanophila striolata Fall., V. Michelsen det., 1985.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Botanophila varicolor ( Meigen, 1826) ( Dely-Draskovits 1993: 32, Gorodkov et al. 1995: 5).

REMARKS: Rondani (1866a: 173) described both sexes of Chorthophila impudica , from an unspecified number of specimens he had collected and one male from the Alps in G. Mussino collection. Willi Hennig examined the MZUF type material, adding the label “ lectotype ” and “ paralectotype ” under the specimens, but in Hennig (1970a: 334), he did not specify either the number or sex of the specimens, and failed to designate a lectotype. Verner Michelsen studied this material in 1985, adding the label “ lectotype ” and “ paralectotype ” under the specimens, but without publishing a lectotype designation (V. Michelsen, pers. comm., September 2012). We also found five syntypes in the MZUF. An additional MZUF specimen numbered “1236” and labeled “Asch 3 [1]870.6” is not included in the type series because it was collected at Asch [= Aš, Czech Republic] by F. Kowarz and later donated to Rondani ( Hennig 1974c: 905, Claussen & Thomson 1996: 280). In order to promote nomenclatural stability, we give credit to V. Michelsen and here designate as a lectotype for Chorthophila impudica Rondani, 1866 the MZUF male labeled as such by him. Rondani described this nominal species under the generic name Chorthophila , which is an “unjustified emendation of Chortophila Macquart, 1835 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 57).