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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5.
Atalanta
[
Atalanta
]
Meigen, 1800: 31
.
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
Clinocera
Meigen, 1803
[
teste
Yang
et al.
(2007: 54)
].
[
Atalanta
]
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.
Atalanta
Meigen
in
Hendel, 1908
:
60
.
ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: None.
FIRST INCLUDED SPECIES:
Clinocera nigra
Meigen, 1804
(in
Coquillett 1910a: 511
).
TYPE SPECIES:
Clinocera nigra
Meigen, 1804
, by subsequent designation (
Coquillett 1910a: 511
).
CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by
Atalanta
Stål, 1861
;
Atalanta
Seeley, 1864
; junior synonym of
Clinocera
Meigen, 1803
.
New Synonymy
.
FAMILY:
EMPIDIDAE
.
REMARKS:
Atalanta
was originally proposed by
Meigen (1800: 31)
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: 60)
was the first after
Meigen (1800)
to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat
Atalanta
as valid, which makes the name available from that work.
Hendel (1908)
did not include any species.
Coquillett (1910a: 511)
was the first to include a species (
Clinocera nigra
Meigen, 1804
), which is the
type
species by subsequent designation.
Clinocera nigra
Meigen, 1804
is currently treated in
Clinocera
Meigen, 1803
[
teste
Yang
et al.
(2007: 54)
], which makes
Atalanta
Meigen
in
Hendel, 1908 a
junior synonym of
Clinocera
Meigen, 1803
,
n. syn
.