Milesia manicata Rondani, 1865 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1865a: 132. TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Apennino [Apennines (Italy)]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, lectotype (missing right hind-leg) (MZUF: Box 3): Milesia Ltr. Spylomyia [sic!] Mgn / manicata Rndn., ♀ / 92 / lectotype ♀, Spilomyia manicata (Rondani, 1865), design. J. van Steenis, 1998. PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♀ (covered with mold, missing right mid-leg) (MZUF: Box 3): Milesia Ltr. Spylomyia [sic!] Mgn / manicata Rndn., ♀ / 92 / Spilomyia diophthalma (Linnaeus, 1758) det. J. van Steenis, 1998. CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Spilomyia manicata (Peck 1988: 213, Belcari et al. 1995a: 18, Steenis 2000: 157). REMARKS: Rondani (1865a: 132) described Milesia manicata from just the female sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens. Steenis (2000: 157) designated a lectotype (♀) but did not mention the additional MZUF female numbered “92” as a paralectotype (this additional specimen is a paralectotype).

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 260, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621