Sphaerocera curvina Rondani 1880

Sphaerocera curvina Rondani, 1880 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1880: 15 (key), 16 (description). TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmense [Parmese territory (Italy)]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (covered with mold) (MZUF: Box 36): Sphaerocera Latr. / curvina n. / 1919 / holotype ♀ Sphaerocera curvina Rondani, labeled A.L. Norrbom, XII[.19]84 / Lotobia pallidiventris (Meigen), det. A.L. Norrbom, 1984. CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Lotobia pallidiventris (Meigen, 1830) (Papp 1984d: 71, Roháček et al. 2001b: 96). REMARKS: Rondani (1880: 16) described Sphaerocera curvina without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length. Allen L. Norrbom labeled the single MZUF female as “ holotype ” but, as far as we know, he never indicated this specimen as holotype in any of his publication (A.L. Norrbom, pers. comm., March 2013). We consider it as a syntype because Rondani did not specify he had a single specimen.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 229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062