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Author
Evenhuis, Neal L.
Author
O’Hara, James E.
Author
Pape, Thomas
Author
Pont, Adrian C.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-02-26
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Ismenia
Robineau-Desvoidy
,
1863a
:
585
.
ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES:
Erycia villica
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
;
Ismenia aestivalis
Robineau- Desvoidy, 1863;
Ismenia campestris
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863
;
Ismenia conducta
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863
;
Ismenia pratensis
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863
.
TYPE
SPECIES
:
Erycia villica
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
, by subsequent designation (
Townsend, 1916: 7
).
CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by King, 1850; no new replacement name proposed; placed in “Doubtful taxa in
Tachinidae
” by
Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 436)
.
FAMILY:
TACHINIDAE
.
REMARKS:
Robineau-Desvoidy’s (1863a: 584)
type-species designation of
Erycia villica
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
was not for the genus
Ismenia
but for the tribe “Ismenidae”.
Sabrosky (1999: 167)
contended that “Since there is only one genus in the tribe, that is virtually a designation for the genus also, and I have accepted it as such”. We do not agree with this interpretation, and accept
Townsend’s (1916)
designation as the earliest one for the genus.