Exorista caudata Rondani 1859

Exorista caudata Rondani, 1859 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 121 (key), 139 (description). TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensis [Parmese hills (Italy)]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♀♀, syntypes (covered with mold) (MZUF: Box 13): Thrycolyga Rndn. / caudata Rnd. / 666; 1 ♀, syntype (MSNPV: Box 97): Exorista caudata Rnd., 384, Parma; 1 ♀, syntype (MZUB: Box 325): 22 47 / Exorista caudata Rond., ex a. parmensi / caudata Rndn ♀ Parma. CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Phryxe caudata (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 193, Pape et al. 1995: 20, Cerretti 2010: 197, O’Hara et al. 2020: 346). REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 139) described Exorista caudata from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths: “ Foeminam non raro legi… Mas ignotus [I not rarely collected the female… The male is unknown]”. We found four female syntypes in this study. An additional two MZUF specimens numbered “666” are not included in the type series: a male because of its sex, and a female because its label is yellowish rather than the greenish color of Rondani’s original handwritten ones and is in a lower row in the Box, for which reason we treat it to be a subsequent addition.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 311, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062