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 Actia vitripennis Rondani, 1856 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1856: 60. TYPE LOCALITY: “ Saint-Sauveur ” [ France ] ( Robineau-Desvoidy 1830: 86 ) [ type locality for Actia pilipennis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ]. TYPE MATERIAL: see Remarks. CURRENT STATUS: unjustified new replacement name for Actia lamia ( Meigen, 1838 ) ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 329 ) ; junior synonym of Actia lamia ( Meigen, 1838 ) (see Remarks). REMARKS: Rondani’s (1856: 60) key for the genus Actia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 lists Actia vitripennis as its type species, but he did not provide a detailed description, type locality, number or sex of the specimens. Rondani (1859b: 19) moved the species Tachina pilipennis Fallén, 1810 to the genus Actia and proposed the replacement name Actia vitripennis for Actia pilipennis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 although Robineau-Desvoidy (1851: 186) recognised Roeselia lamia Meigen, 1838 as a junior synonym of Actia pilipennis ( O’Hara et al . 1985: 93 ) . Rondani (1861e: 152) provided specific characters to separate Actia vitripennis Rondani from Actia lamia ( Meigen, 1838 ) . Schiner (1864: 88) and Bezzi & Stein (1907: 389) considered Actia vitripennis as a junior synonym of Actia frontalis ( Macquart, 1845 ) , O’Hara et al . (1985: 93) and Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 329) considered it as an unjustified new name for Roeselia lamia , but Rondani himself (1861e:152) considered Actia vitripennis as a valid species, different from Actia pilipennis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 . The type material for Actia vitripennis will be the same as for the name it was proposed to replace, i. e., Actia pilipennis . There is no type of this latter species in the MNHN where Robineau-Desvoidy’s collection is preserved (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 2020). Under the name Actia vitripennis there is a female (non-type) in the MZUF.