Metopia staegerii Rondani, 1859 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 210. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Danicus [Denmark]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (missing right fore-, left mid- and both hind-legs) (MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / staegerii Rnd., Dania / 276 / 702 / Lectotype Metopia staegerii Rndn., ♂, T. Pape det. PARALECTOTYPE EXAMINED: 1 ♂ (MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / staegerii Rnd., Dania / 702 / paralectotype Metopia staegerii Rndn., ♂, T. Pape det. PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 3 ♂♂ (one missing left hind-leg, one missing left mid-leg) (MZUF: Box 14): Metopia Mg. / staegerii Rnd., Dania / 702 / Metopia italiana Pape, T. Pape det., 1984. CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Metopia argentata Macquart, 1851 (Verves 1986: 97); valid species (Pape 1988: 16, 1996: 104, Povolný & Verves 1997: 105). REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 210) described Metopia staegerii from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ marem tantum observavi [I observed only the male]”, received from R.C. Staeger. Pape (1985: 213) reported six specimens in the MZUF and designated a lectotype (♂) and paralectotype (♂). Not included by him in the type series are an additional four specimens: three males (all paralectotypes) belonging, in his opinion, to a different species, and one female (non-type) because of its sex.

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