Tephritis conjuncta var. divisa Rondani 1871

Tephritis conjuncta var. divisa Rondani, 1871 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1871b: 18. TYPE LOCALITY: “ in tota Italia [in all Italy]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype (double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin) (MZUF: Box 31): Tephritis Latr. / divisa Rnd., ♀ / 1657 / ♀ / lectotype Tephritis divisa Rondani, det. B. Merz, 1992. PARALECTOTYPES EXAMINED: 5 ♂♂ (all double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin, one completely covered with mold; one missing head and left legs) (MZUF: Box 31): Tephritis Latr. / divisa Rnd. ♂ / 1657; 5 ♀♀ (two double-mounted: fastened by a micro pin to a polyethylene foam block on a standard insect pin; one very moldy; one completely covered with mold; one with head and thorax partially eaten by dermestids, missing left wing) (MZUF: Box 31): Tephritis Latr. / divisa Rnd. ♀ / 1657. CURRENT STATUS: subspecies of Tephritis conjuncta (Loew, 1844) (Foote 1984: 133); valid species, as Tephritis divisa (Merz 1992: 236, Merz 1994: 67, Belcari et al. 1995b: 11, Norrbom et al. 1999: 216). REMARKS: Rondani (1871b: 18) described divisa as a variety of Tephritis conjuncta (Loew, 1844), without specifying the number, sex or length of the specimens. Merz (1992: 236) designated a lectotype (♀) and paralectotypes (5 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀).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 pages 374-375, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062