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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journal article
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22.
Euphrosyne
[
Euphrosyne
]
Meigen, 1800: 16
.
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
Macrocera
Meigen, 1803
[
teste
Evenhuis (2006: 31)
].
[
Euphrosyne
]
Osten Sacken, 1882: 193
.
CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; criteria to make the name available not fulfilled in this work. REMARKS:
Osten Sacken (1882)
included this name only in a list of
Meigen 1800
names without stating their availability.
[
Euphrosyne
]
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.
Euphrosyne
Meigen
in
Hendel
,
1908
:
47
.
ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: None.
FIRST INCLUDED SPECIES:
Macrocera lutea
Meigen, 1804
(in
Coquillett 1910a: 542
).
TYPE SPECIES:
Macrocera lutea
Meigen, 1804
, by subsequent designation (
Coquillett 1910a: 542
).
CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by
Euphrosyne
Gray, 1866a
;
Euphrosyne
Buchecker, 1880
; junior synonym of
Macrocera
Meigen, 1803
.
New Synonymy
.
FAMILY:
KEROPLATIDAE
.
REMARKS:
Euphrosyne
was originally proposed by
Meigen (1800: 16)
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: 47)
was the first after
Meigen (1800)
to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat
Euphrosyne
as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author.
Hendel’s (1908)
single species, given as “
Tip. longicornis
?”, is questionably included and, as such, is not allowed under Article 67.2.5 of the ICZN
Code
. The first included species fulfilling the conditions of the
Code
was in
Coquillett (1910a: 542)
who selected
Macrocera lutea
Meigen, 1804
as
type
species by subsequent designation.
Macrocera lutea
Meigen, 1804
is currently treated in
Macrocera
Meigen, 1803
[
teste
Evenhuis (2006: 31)
], which makes
Euphrosyne
Meigen
in
Hendel, 1908 a
junior synonym of
Macrocera
Meigen, 1803
,
n. syn
.