Echinomya nupta Rondani 1859
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Echinomya
Echinomya nupta

description: Echinomya nupta Rondani, 1859
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 49 (key), 55 (description).
TYPE LOCALITY: “ in tota Italia [in all Italy]”.
TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (MZUF: Box 10): Echynomya [sic!] Dmrl / nupta Rnd., ♀ / 486; 1 specimen, syntype (sex not determinable, missing head, right wing, all legs and abdomen) (MZUF: Box 10): Echynomya [sic!] Dmrl / nupta Rnd., ♂ / 486 / Echinomyia [sic!] tessellata Mcq. non Mg.; 1 ♂, syntype (missing right mid-leg), 1 ♀, syntype (missing left fore- and mid-legs) (MZUF: Box E): Echinomya nupta Rnd., 170, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 170; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left fore- and mid -legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Echinomya nupta Rndn. ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 4, posiz. H-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Echinomya nupta Rndn. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 4, posiz. H-13 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♂, syntype (MSNPV: Box 98): Echinomyia [sic!] nupta Rndn. 42, ♂ ♀, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype (MZUB: Box 324): 22 06 / Echinomyia [sic!] nupta Rond., ex a. parmensi / nupta ♀ Rndn., Parma.
CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Tachina nupta (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 266, Pape et al. 1995: 24, O’Hara et al. 2009: 178); junior synonym of Tachina magnicornis (Zetterstedt, 1844) (Cerretti 2010: 304); valid species as Tachina (Tachina) nupta (O’Hara et al. 2020: 880).
REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 55) described both sexes of Echinomya nupta from an unspecified number of specimens. Under the name of the species, Rondani (1859b: 55) wrote: “ fera (Var.) Rossi f.e. [= fauna etrusca] Petag. [= Petagna] Zett. et alior — virgo (Var.) Mgn. — tessellata (Var.) Desv. Macq. (non Meig.)”. Rondani referred to the redescription of Musca fera Linnaeus, 1761 sensu Rossi (1807: 464) and sensu Petagna (1786: 43), to Echinomya fera (Linnaeus, 1761) sensu Zetterstedt (1844: 994), to Echinomya virgo (Meigen, 1824), to Echinomya tessellata (Fabricius, 1794) sensu Robineau-Desvoidy (1830: 47, 1844: 17) and sensu Macquart (1833: 323, 1834: 73, 1845: 258)”. However, Rondani (p. 55) specified: “ E’ impossibile stabilire con sicurezza a quali specie degli autori si debbano riportare tutte le innumerevoli varietà di alcune Echinomye [It is impossible to establish with confidence to which authors’ species we must refer for all the numerous varieties of Echinomya]”. So, the types of Echinomya nupta should be only in Rondani’s collection. O’Hara et al. (2009: 178) reported 14 syntypes in the MZUF: seven males, six females and one specimen (sex not determinable). We found just eight syntypes in this study: one male, two females and one specimen (sex not determinable) in the MZUF, one male and one female in the MSNC, one male in the MSNPV and one female in the MZUB.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621