Phytomyptera halidayana Rondani 1872

Phytomyptera halidayana Rondani, 1872 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1872b: 108. TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Sicilia [Sicily (Italy)]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing left fore- and right hind-legs, double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin) (MZUF: Box 9): Phytomyptera Rnd. / halidayana Rnd. / Sicil. / 450. CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Thrixion aberrans (Schiner 1861) (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 174). REMARKS: Rondani (1872b: 108) described Phytomyptera halidayana, without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material received from A.H. Haliday. We found one syntype in this study.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 347, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062