Metopia roserii Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 195

Metopia roserii Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 210.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Germanicus [ Germany]”.

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing right hind-leg) ( MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / roserii Rnd. argyrocephala Mgn, Germ. [= Germany] / 704 / lectotype Metopia roserii Rnd. , ♂, T. Pape det., 1986 / Metopia roserii Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986.

PARALECTOTYPE EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / roserii Rnd. argyrocephala Mgn, Germ. [= Germany] / 704 / Metopia argyrocephala Mg. / paralectotype.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Metopia argyrocephala ( Meigen, 1824) ( Verves 1986: 97) ; valid species, as Metopia roserii Rondani, 1859 ( Pape 1988: 15, Pape et al. 1995: 11); junior synonym of Metopia argentata Macquart, 1851 ( Pape 1996: 98, Povolný & Verves 1997: 257).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 210) described Metopia roserii from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ marem tantum observavi [I observed the male only]”, from material received from C.L.F. von Roser. Pape (1986: 3) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotype (♂). A MZUF female numbered “704” is not included in the type series because of its sex.