Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani Author Sforzi, Alessandra 0000-0001-6974-7741 alessandra.sforzi@libero.it Author Sommaggio, Daniele 0000-0001-6974-7741 alessandra.sforzi@libero.it text Zootaxa 2021 2021-06-17 4989 1 1 438 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1 1175-5326 4980621 89C63841-3CF4-491D-8C73-BEF7DCB18FB5 Diopsis aethiopica Rondani, 1873 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1873e: 289. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Sciotel [Sciotel ( Eritrea )]”. TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀ , lectotype ( MSNG ): Bogos 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / Typus / aethiopica Rond. / Diopsis aethiopica . PARALECTOTYPE NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♂ ( MZUF : Box 72): Diasemopsis aethiopica Rndn. / Bogos, 1870, Sciotel, O. Beccari / [no identification number ]. CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Diasemopsis aethiopica ( Cogan & Shillito 1980: 584 ) . REMARKS: Rondani (1873e: 289) described Diopsis aethiopica , without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens and not giving a range of lengths, from material collected by O. Beccari and O. Antinori. Guiglia (1957: 194) reported a “ holotype ” in the MSNG without knowing of an additional male in the MZUF—which brings the original type series to two specimens . In his original description Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single specimen therefore Guiglia’s “ holotype ” specimen must be considered as the lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). The additional male in the MZUF not examined by Guiglia is a paralectotype .