Dionaea

Evenhuis, Neal L. & Pape, Thomas, 2017, Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen’s 1800 pamphlet, Zootaxa 4275 (1), pp. 1-74 : 31-32

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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.

References

Bezzi, M. (1907 a) Nomenklatorisches uber Dipteren. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 26, 51 - 56. [15 February]

Coquillett, D. W. (1910 a) The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 37, 499 - 647. [4 August]

Hendel, F. (1908) Nouvelle classification des mouches a deux ailes (Diptera L.). D'apres un plan tout nouveau par J. G. Meigen, Paris, an VIII (1800 v. s.). Mit Kommentar herausgegeben von Friedrich Hendel. Verhandlungen der K. - k. Zoologisch- Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 58, 43 - 69. [22 April]

Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. L. Salvii, Holmiae [= Stockholm], [4] + 823 + [1 (Emendanda)] pp. [1 January]

Meigen, J. W. (1800) Nouvelle classification des mouches a deux ailes (Diptera L.) d'apres un plan tout nouveau. Par J. G. Meigen. An VIII (1800 v. s.) . J. J. Fuchs, Paris, 40 pp. [before 22 September]

Panzer, G. W. F. (1794) Faunae insectorum germanicae initia. Deutschlands Insecten. Heft 24. Felsecker, Nurnberg [= Nuremberg], 24 pp., 24 pls. [21 August]

Yang, D., Zhang, K. - Y., Yao, G. & Zhang, J. - H. (2007) World catalog of Empididae (Insecta: Diptera). China Agricultural University Press, Beijing, vi + 599 pp. [1 June]