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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3.
Antiopa
[
Antiopa
]
Meigen, 1800: 32
.
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
Chrysotoxum
Meigen, 1803
[
teste
Sabrosky (1999: 44)
].
Antiopa
Meigen
in
Hendel
,
1908
:
61
.
ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: None.
FIRST INCLUDED SPECIES:
Musca bicincta
Linnaeus, 1758
(in
Coquillett 1910a: 508
).
TYPE SPECIES:
Musca bicincta
Linnaeus, 1758
by subsequent designation (
Coquillett 1910a: 508
).
CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by
Antiopa
Alder & Hancock, 1848
;
Antiopa
Stål, 1862
; junior synonym of
Chrysotoxum
Meigen, 1803
.
New Synonymy
.
FAMILY:
SYRPHIDAE
.
REMARKS:
Antiopa
was originally proposed by Meigen 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]). Hoyle (1902: 214) treated the name as a senior homonym of
Antiopa
Alder & Hancock, 1848
, but did not treat it as valid, thus it was still unavailable in that work. The name was first made available by Meigen
in
Hendel (1908: 61)
, where it was treated as valid and listed as a senior synonym of
Chrysotoxum
Meigen, 1803
; however no species were included in the genus in this work. The first included species we could find is
Musca bicincta
Linnaeus,
1758
in
Coquillett (1910a: 508)
, which is thus the
type
species by subsequent designation.
Musca bicincta
Linnaeus, 1758
is currently treated in
Chrysotoxum
Meigen, 1803
[
teste
Sabrosky (1999: 44)
], which makes
Antiopa
Meigen
in
Hendel, 1908 a
junior synonym of
Chrysotoxum
Meigen, 1803
,
n. syn
.