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
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17.
Dionaea
[
Dionaea
]
Meigen, 1800: 24
.
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
Rhamphomyia
Meigen, 1822
[
teste
Yang
et al
. (2007: 149)
]. FAMILY:
EMPIDIDAE
.
[
Dionaea
]
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.
Dionnaea
Meigen
in
Hendel
,
1908
:
54
.
ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES:
Empis borealis
Linnaeus, 1758
;
Empis platyptera
Panzer, 1794
. TYPE SPECIES:
Empis platyptera
Panzer, 1794
, by subsequent designation (
Coquillett 1910a: 534
).
CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of
Rhamphomyia
Meigen, 1822
.
New Synonymy
.
FAMILY:
EMPIDIDAE
.
REMARKS:
Dionaea
was originally proposed by
Meigen (1800: 24)
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]).
Hendel (1908: 54)
was the first after
Meigen (1800)
to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat
Dionaea
as valid (spelling it as “
Dionnaea
”), which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author.
Hendel (1908)
included two species:
Empis borealis
Linnaeus, 1758
;
Empis platyptera
Panzer, 1794
.
Coquillett (1910a: 534)
designated
Empis platyptera
Panzer, 1794
, which is the
type
species by subsequent designation.
Empis platyptera
Panzer, 1794
s
currently treated in
Rhamphomyia
Meigen, 1822
[
teste
Yang
et al
. (2007: 149)
], which makes
Dionnaea
Meigen
in
Hendel, 1908 a
junior synonym of
Rhamphomyia
Meigen, 1822
,
n. syn.
Hendel (1908: 54)
misspelled Meigen’s genus-group name but, as this is the first availability of the name, this is the spelling that must be used.
Coquillett (1910a: 534)
followed
Hendel’s (1908)
spelling of the genus-group name when designating a
type
species for it.