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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25.
Fungivora
[
Fungivora
]
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
Mycetophila
Meigen, 1803
[
teste
Sabrosky (1999: 140)
].
[Fungidora]
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; this is a misspelling of
Fungivora
Meigen, 1800
.
Fungivora
Meigen
in
Hendel
,
1908
:
48
.
FIRST INCLUDED SPECIES:
Tipula fungorum
De Geer, 1776
[as “
Tipula fungivora
”];
Tipula agarici
Villers, 1789
[as ... “
agarici
Deeg.
”] (in
Hendel 1908: 48
).
TYPE SPECIES:
Tipula agarici
Villers, 1789
, by subsequent designation (
Coquillett 1910a: 545
).
CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of
Mycetophila
Meigen, 1803
.
New Synonymy
.
FAMILY:
MYCETOPHILIDAE
.
REMARKS:
Fungivora
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: 48)
was the first after
Meigen (1800)
to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat
Fungivora
as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author.
Hendel (1908)
included two nominal species.
Coquillett (1910a: 545)
designated the second of these two,
Tipula agarici
Villers, 1789
, which is the
type
species by subsequent designation.
Tipula agarici
Villers, 1789
is currently treated in
Mycetophila
Meigen, 1803
[
teste
Sabrosky (1999: 140)
], which makes
Fungivora
Meigen
in
Hendel, 1908 a
junior synonym of
Mycetophila
Meigen, 1803
,
n. syn.