Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen’s 1800 pamphlet Author Evenhuis, Neal L. Author Pape, Thomas text Zootaxa 2017 4275 1 1 74 journal article 32874 10.11646/zootaxa.4275.1.1 02308cb2-2ac2-407f-aa58-b7f5b657fc44 1175-5326 804234 065D531F-1095-4364-906B-EC55CFF9BFD4 27. Hermione [ Hermione ] Meigen, 1800: 22 . CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; work suppressed for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of I.C.Z.N. (1963: 339 [Opinion 678]); treated under Oxycera Meigen, 1803 [ teste Woodley (2001: 244) ]. [ Hermione ] Bezzi, 1907a: 56 . CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; criteria to make the name available not fulfilled in this work. REMARKS: Bezzi (1907a) included this name only in a list of Meigen 1800 names without stating their availability. Hermione Bezzi, 1908b: 76 , 83. ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Musca graeca Pontoppidan, 1763 ; Musca hypoleon Linnaeus, 1767 [as “ Hermione ( Oxycera ) hypoleon L. 1767”]; Musca trilineata Linnaeus, 1767 [as “ trilineata Fab. 1781 ”]. TYPE SPECIES: Musca hypoleon Linnaeus, 1767 [= Musca trilineata Linnaeus, 1767 ], by subsequent designation ( Coquillett 1910a: 551 ). CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by Hermione Blainville, 1828 ; Hermione Leach in Gray, 1852 ; Hermione Forbes & Goodsir, 1840 ; Hermione Meyrick, 1883 ; junior synonym of Oxycera Meigen, 1803 . New Synonymy . FAMILY: STRATIOMYIDAE . REMARKS: Hermione was originally proposed by Meigen (1800: 22) without included species and later made unavailable by the suppression of the entire work for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of the I.C.Z.N. (1963: 339 [Opinion 678]). Bezzi (1908b: 76 , 83) was the first after Meigen (1800) to treat Hermione as valid, which makes the name available from that work. Bezzi (1908b: 83) included three nominal species: Musca graeca Pontoppidan, 1763 , Musca hypoleon Linnaeus, 1767 [as “ Hermione ( Oxycera ) hypoleon L. 1767”] and Musca trilineata Linnaeus, 1767 [as “ trilineata Fab. 1781 ”]. Coquillett (1910a: 551) selected Musca hypoleon Linnaeus, 1767 , which is the type species by subsequent designation. Musca hypoleon Linnaeus, 1767 is currently treated in Oxycera Meigen, 1803 [ teste Woodley (2001: 244) ], which makes Hermione Bezzi, 1908 a junior synonym of Oxycera Meigen, 1803 , n. syn. Hendel (1908: 53) treated Hermione as a synonym of Oxycera Meigen, 1803 , which he placed as a junior synonym of “ Hypoleon Duméril, 1801 (sec. O.-S.)”. However, Hypoleon was not made available until Duméril (1805) [usage of it in Duméril (1800 : [table between pages 438 and 439]) and Latreille (1802: 448) is as “ Hypoléon ” and is vernacular], so Oxycera Meigen, 1803 is the seniormost synonym of Hermione Bezzi, 1908 .