Hebotomus minutus Rondani, 1843

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 181

Hebotomus minutus Rondani, 1843

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1843f: 265.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in planitia parmensi prope Padana [Parmese plains near the Padana ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♂♂, syntypes (each glued to a cardboard) ( MZUF: Box 57): Phlebotomus Rndn. / minutus Rndn. , ♂, Parma / 3036 / Phlebotomus minutus Rndn. , ♂, rev. e det. G. Saccà; 1 ♂, syntype (glued to a cardboard) ( MZUF: Box 57): Phlebotomus Rndn. / minutus Rndn. , ♂, Parma / 3036 / Phlebotomus Rndn. papatasi Scop. , ♂, rev. e det. G. Saccà; 1 ♂, syntype (very damaged, only part of thorax and wings remain) ( MZUF: Box 57): Phlebotomus Rndn. / minutus Rndn. , ♂, Parma / 3036 / Phlebotomus Rndn. papatasi Scop. , ♂, G. Saccà det.; 1 ♀, syntype (glued to a cardboard), ( MZUF: Box 57): Phlebotomus Rndn. / minutus Rndn. , ♀, Parma / 3036 / Phlebotomus minutus Rndn. , ♀, rev. e det. G. Saccà; 2 specimens, syntypes (sex not determinable, one missing its abdomen, the other its head, abdomen and legs) ( MZUF: Box 57): Phlebotomus Rndn. / minutus Rndn. , Parma / 3036; 2 specimens, syntypes (sex not determinable, glued to a cardboard stage, both missing head and abdomen) ( MZUF: Box 57): Phlebotomus Rndn. / minutus Rndn. , Parma / 3036 / Phlebotomus sp. gruppo major , rev. e det. Saccà; 1 specimen, syntype (sex not determinable, double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin) ( OUMNH Verrall-Collin Palaearctic Residues: Box 148.9): syntype / Type / Phlebotomus minutus Rondani Type, Parma / P. minutus Ex. Coll. Bigot; 4 specimens, syntypes (sex not determinable, double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin) ( OUMNH Verrall-Collin Palaearctic Residues: Box 148.9): syntype / Type / P. minutus Ex. Coll. Bigot.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Sergentomyia minuta ( Wagner 1990: 22, Dahl et al. 1995: 32).

REMARKS: Rondani (1843f: 265) described Hebotomus minutus without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length. He certainly had the male sex because he included a drawing of the male terminalia ( Rondani 1843f: pl. 10). In the MZUF the labels with the species names have been removed from their specimens, pinned together and arranged near the specimens in the Box. We found 16 syntypes in this study. Saccà (1947: 54), in studying the type material, listed ten rather than the 11 specimens present in the MZUF, did not mention the five OUMNH specimens, and did not designate a lectotype. Rondani described the genus as “ Hebotomus ”, which is an “incorrect subsequent spelling of Phlebotomus Rondani & Berté, 1840 ” ( O’Hara et al. 2011: 94).