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 Sphaeroceridae This worldwide family of acalyptrate flies contains almost 1600 species ( Evenhuis & Pape 2020 ) but presumably there are many more, predominantly tropical, ones waiting to be described ( Marshall 2012 ). In his “ Stirps Copromyzinae ” rather than in the family Sphaeroceridae proposed by Macquart (1835) , Rondani (1868b , 1880 ) described 24 Palaearctic and one South America nominal species. Ten of these are currently considered as valid and 15 are junior synonyms ( Roháček 1983 , Papp 1984 d , Norrbom & Kim 1986, Munari 1991 , Canzoneri et al. 1995 , Roháček & Marshall 2000 , Roháček et al. 2001b , 2001 a , Marshall et al. 2011, Papp 2012 , Kits & Marshall 2013 ). Rondani (1880) also proposed one new name in synonymy that was not made available by use as a valid species before 1961. Dipterists who have examined the type material in the MZUF and designated lectotypes are: Norrbom & Kim (1986) for Borborus limbinervis Rondani, 1880 and Borborus nigriceps Rondani, 1880 , Roháček (1982) for Limosina caenosa Rondani, 1880 , Limosina roralis Rondani, 1880 , Roháček (1983) for Limosina akka Rondani, 1880 , Limosina exigua Rondani, 1880 , Limosina fulviceps Rondani, 1880 , Limosina liliputana Rondani, 1880 , Limosina luteilabris Rondani, 1880 , Limosina nana Rondani, 1880 , Limosina puerula Rondani, 1880 , Limosina retracta Rondani, 1880 , Roháček (1991) for Limosina cilifera Rondani, 1880 , Limosina simplicimana Rondani, 1880 , Roháček & Marshall (2000) for Limosina ciliosa Rondani, 1880 . Allen L. Norrbom examined the type material of the nominal species of the genus Sphaerocera without publishing any results. Villeneuve (1914 , 1918 ) and Kits & Marshall (2013) examined the type material in the MZUF without publishing any lectotype designation. Except for the type material of Sphaerocera pallidimana , which has been destroyed, the type material has been recovered for all nominal species and is distributed among the MZUF (24), OUMNH (two), MZUB (one) and MZLU (one).