Tomosvaryella parakuthyi De Meyer, 1995

Kehlmaier, Christian, Gibbs, David J. & Withers, Phil, 2019, New records of big-headed flies (Diptera: Pipunculidae) from the Mediterranean Basin, Bonn zoological Bulletin 68 (1), pp. 31-60 : 54

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20363/BZB-2019.68.1.031
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scientific name	Tomosvaryella parakuthyi De Meyer, 1995
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CYPRUS *: Frenaros , 35°03′04.50′′N 33°52′57.66′′E, 1.ix–30.x.2018, S. Schiffel [1♂, PCCK] GoogleMaps .

Tomosvaryella pilosiventris ( Becker, 1900) Tomosvaryella glabrum (Adams, 1905) syn. nov.

SPAIN: Canary Islands, Tenerife, Fanabe , 22.vii.1970, J.J. & A. Menier [1♂ 1♀, MNHN] . TURKEY *: Antalya, Side , green grass plot, 28.ix.2007, N. Vikhrev, det. D.J. Gibbs [1♂, PCDG] .

Remarks. The original type series consisted of an unspecified number of males and females collected at Cairo, Assiut and Fayum between November and March (Beck- er, 1900). At MNHU four specimens were identified that belong to the type series: 2♂♂ 1♀, Fayum, 44775, III; 1♀, Cairo, 44244, XI. The whereabouts of the syntypes from Assiut is unknown. Both present males have been dissected in the past. One male (with missing head) was labelled as lectotype by Sergey Kuznetzov. However, this lectotype designation was apparently never published. The “head-less” male is hereby designated as lectotype in order to fix the name involved and ensure a universal and consistent interpretation of the taxon in the future.

The status of this species involves several nomenclatural acts. Aczél (1944) originally placed T. pilosiventris in synonymy under T. subvirescens (Loew, 1872) , but Kuznetzov (1994) restored T. pilosiventris as a good species. Hardy (1949) placed T. glabrum (Adams, 1905) in synonymy under T. subvirescens , but later De Meyer et al. (2001) reinstated T. glabrum as a valid taxon and synonymised T. tecta De Meyer, 1993 under T. glabrum . The present study revealed that T. pilosiventris is conspecific with specimens identified as T. glabrum syn. nov. by Kehlmaier & Majnon Jahromi (2015), who also studied material originally identified as T. glabrum by De Mey- er et al. (2001). Male genitalia are figured in De Meyer (1993).