Oplisa mendica Rondani, 1862

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 185

Oplisa mendica Rondani, 1862

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1862d: 155.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in toto agro parmensi … In Etruria quoque lecta …, in Insubria …, et in Pedemontio [… Parmese territory … Etruria (= Tuscany) … Insubria (= Lombardy), and Piedmont ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing left mid-leg), 1 ♀, paralectotype (missing mid- and right hind-legs; pinned with a conspecific female) ( MZUF: Box 20): ♂, Oplisa Rnd. / mendica Rnd., T. Pape det., 1986 / 1069 / lectotype ♂ Oplisa mendica Rnd., T. Pape det. 1986 .

PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 5 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ ( MZUF: Box 20): Oplisa Rnd. / mendica Rnd. / 1069 .

PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (missing left mid-leg), 1 ♀ (MZUF: Box F): Oplisa Rnd. mendica Rnd. , 386, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 386; 1 ♂ (missing both mid-legs, abdomen glued to a cardboard stage pinned below specimen) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Oplisa Rnd. mendica Rnd. 416 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. D-17 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀ (missing both mid-legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Oplisa mendica Rnd. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 5, posiz. D-18 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂ (missing left mid-leg) (OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll.: Box 7): Type / O. mendica Ex. Coll. Big. / O. mendica ♂ Europe, Rond. / G. Oplisa Rond.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Oplisa tergestina (Schiner, 1861) ( Pape 1989: 357, Herting 1993: 105, Peris & González-Mora 2007: 49; Cerretti et al. 2020: 83).

REMARKS: Rondani (1862d: 155) described Oplisa mendica without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material he had collected and also received from F.M. Piccioli, L. Erra, L. Bellardi and G. Mussino. Pape (1989: 357) designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotypes (5 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀) but did not mention an additional five specimens: one male and one female in the MZUF, one male and one female in the MSNC and one male in the OUMNH (all are paralectotypes).