Phorocera polleniella Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 346

Phorocera polleniella Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 162 (key), 163 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agri parmensis planitie et collibus … in Pedemontio [ Parmese plains and hills … Piedmont ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 4 ♂♂, syntypes (one missing mid- and right hind-legs; one missing left fore-leg; one missing right fore-, both mid-, and right hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 12): Phorocera Mgn / polleniella Rnd. , ♂ / 593; 4 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right mid-leg; one missing mid-legs; one missing left mid-leg; one missing right fore-, right mid- and both hind-legs) ( MZUF: Box 12): Phorocera Mgn / polleniella Rnd. , ♀ / 593; 1 ♂, syntype (missing mid-legs), 1 ♀, syntype (missing head and right fore-leg, thorax partially eaten by dermestids) ( MZUF: Box D): Phorocera polleniella R., 241, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 241; 1 ♀, syntype ( MRSN, Box 1756): Parma / Phorocera polleniella 41, Rndn. / Museo di Zoologia della Università Torino, Italia; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Phorocera polleniella R. 57 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. E-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore-, left mid- and hind-legs) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Phorocera polleniella R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. E-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes ( MSNPV: Box 96): Phorocera polleniella R., 120, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUB: Box 325): 22 78 / Phorocera polleniella Rond. , ex a. parmensi / polleniella Rndn. , ♂ ♀, Rndn., Parma; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid-leg), 1 ♀, syntype ( OUMNH General Collection: Box 167.2): syntype / Type / P. polleniella Ex. Coll. Big. / Verrall-Collin Palaearctic coll. Ox. Uni. Mus. Nat. Hist. ( OUMNH) OUMNH –1967–018 / Tachinidae Clemelis pullata ( Meigen, 1824) , Palaearctic.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Clemelis pullata ( Meigen, 1824) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 232) .

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 163) described both sexes of Phorocera polleniella without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material that he had collected and that he had also received from L. Bellardi. We found 18 syntypes in this study.