Viviania nubilis Rondani, 1861 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1861e: 54. TYPE LOCALITY: “ in collibus agri parmensis, … in planitie [Parmese (Italy) hills … (and) plains]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 2 ♂♂, syntypes (one dirty, missing right mid-leg, the other dirty, missing right fore- and mid-legs) (MZUF: Box 15): Viviana [sic !] Rnd. / nubilis Rnd., ♂ / 765; 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing fore- and right mid-legs) (MZUF: Box 15): Viviana [sic !] Rnd. / nubilis Rnd., ♀ / 765; 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid- and hind-legs) (MZUF: Box D): Viviana [sic !] R. nubilis Rnd., 295, ♂, Parma / 393 295; 1 ♂, syntype (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Viviania R. nubilis R. 115 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-8 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (missing left mid- and hind legs) (MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Viviania nubilis R. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 2, posiz. B-9 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci (PI) ex collezione Rondani. CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Conogaster pruinosa (Meigen, 1824) (Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 147, O’Hara et al. 2020: 214). REMARKS: Rondani (1861e: 54) described both sexes of Viviania nubilis without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of lengths. We found seven syntypes in this study.

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