Leucopis minuscula Rondani 1875

Leucopis minuscula Rondani, 1875 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875a: 262 (key), 265 (description). TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Italia australi [southern Italy]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (dirty, missing right wing, dissected) (MZUF: Box 35): Leucopis Mgn / minuscula Rnd., Sicil. [= Sicily] / 1815 / Holotypus Leucopis (Leucopis) minuscula Rond., det. G. Morge, Ex. 12 / Holotypus ♀ Leucopis (Leucopis) minuscula Rondani, 1874 [sic !], A. Raspi. CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Tanasijtshuk 1984: 228, Nartshuk et al. 1995: 7, Raspi & Benelli 2016: 204). REMARKS: Rondani (1875a: 265) described Leucopis minuscula, without specifying its sex, from a single specimen, “ specimen unicum observavi in Italia australi lectum et mihi trasmissum [sic !] a Cl. Haliday [I observed a single specimen collected in southern Italy and sent to me by Mr. Haliday]”.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 86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062