A review of genus-group names in Diptera (Insecta) that J. C. Fabricius “ borrowed ” from other dipterists and proposed as new in his systematic works from 1775 to 1805
Author
Michelsen, Verner
Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: vmichelsen @ snm. ku. dk Canadian National Collection of Insects, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K 1 A 0 C 6. E-mail: james. ohara @ agr. gc. ca
Author
O’Hara, James E.
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-10-14
3873
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3873.1.6
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Ceria
Fabricius, 1794: 277
.
Type
species:
Ceria clavicornis
Weber, 1795
[=
Musca conopsoides
Linnaeus, 1758
], by subsequent monotypy (
Weber 1795
). Junior homonym of
Ceria
Scopoli, 1763
. Replaced by
Ceriana
Rafinesque, 1815
,
nomen novum
for
Ceria
Fabricius, 1794
(Syrphidae)
.
Remarks.
The name
Ceria
Scopoli, 1763
was originally proposed for two species of
Scatopsidae
.
Fabricius (1794)
proposed the name
Ceria
for a species of
Syrphidae
and his usage of the name became widely accepted in pre-1902 literature (P.A. Latreille, J.W. Meigen, J.W. Zetterstedt, G.H. Verrall, etc.).
A description of the only included species was given by
Fabricius (1794)
, but inadvertently the specific name [
clavicornis
] was omitted. It first appeared in an index to the four volumes (1792–1794) of Fabricius’s
Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta
prepared by
Weber (1795)
. Accordingly, the authorship of
Ceria clavicornis
is correctly attributed to
Weber (1795)
rather than
Fabricius (1794)
. This interpretation of
type
fixation of
Ceria
Fabricius, 1794
is the same as that of
Sabrosky (1999: 79)
except that authorship of
Ceria clavicornis
was attributed in that work to Fabricius, 1795 not
Weber, 1795
.