Blepharipa pupiphaga Rondani 1861

Blepharipa pupiphaga Rondani, 1861 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 14 (key), 15 (description). TYPE LOCALITY: “ in planitie et collibus agri parmensis … a Pedemontio [Parmese plains and hills … from Piedmont (Italy)]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one partially eaten by dermestids, missing head and left mid-leg, the other missing left mid-leg), 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right mid-leg, the other covered with mold, puparium pinned below specimen) (MZUF: Box 14): Blepharipa Rnd. / pupiphaga Rnd., ♂ / 737; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes (MZUF: Box D): Blepharipa pupiphaga R., 279, ♂ ♀, Parma / 393 279; 1 ♂, syntype (head fragments glued to a separate cardboard stage, thorax and abdomen partially eaten by dermestids) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Blepharipa pupiphaga R. 100 ♂ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. A-3 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani. CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Sturmia bella (Meigen, 1824) (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 248). REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 15) described both sexes of Blepharipa pupiphaga from an unspecified number of specimens he had collected and also received from L. Bellardi, and then redescribed it under the generic name Masicera (Rondani 1862a: 45). We found seven syntypes in this study. Not included in the type series are an additional two MRSN males from Piedmont because just the female sex comes from this locality: “ in planitie et collibus agri parmensis … Foeminam quoque a Pedemontio misit Prof. Bellardi [Parmese plains and hills … Prof. Bellardi also sent the female from Piedmont]”.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 290, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/498062