Psilota conjugata Rondani, 1857

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 267

Psilota conjugata Rondani, 1857

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 174.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus ditionis parmensis [ Parmese hills ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (terminalia in a glass vial pinned below each specimen) ( MZUF: Box 6): Psilota Mgn / conjugata Rnd. ♂ / 312 / syntype ♂, Psilota conjugata Rondani, 1857 , det. J.T. Smit, 2005 / Synonym of Psilota anthracina Meig. , det. J.T. Smit, 2005; 4 ♀♀, syntypes (one covered with mold) ( MZUF: Box 6): Psilota Mgn / conjugata Rnd. ♀ / 312 / syntype ♀, Psilota conjugata Rondani, 1857 , det. J.T. Smit, 2005 / Synonym of Psilota anthracina Meig. , det. J.T. Smit, 2005; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box B): Psilota Mgn conjugata R., 106, ♀, Parma / 393 106; 1 ♀, syntype (missing right fore-leg) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Psilota Mgn conjugata Rnd. ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 4, posiz. B-16 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 100): Psilota Mgn conjugata Rn. , ♀, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype ( OUMNH Verrall-Collin Coll.: Box 37): syntype / Type / Ps. conjugata Coll. Big. / Ps. conjugata ♀ Italia [illegible word] Rond.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Psilota anthracina ( Meigen, 1822) ( Peck 1988: 176, Belcari et al. 1995a: 17, Smit & Vujić 2008: 348).

REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 174) described both sexes of Psilota conjugata without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths, but presumably from more than one specimen because he indicated: “ non raro [not rare]”. We found ten syntypes in this study.