Loewia Egger

Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Giudice, Giuseppe Lo & O’Hara, James E., 2014, A new Loewia Egger (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Turkey, with taxonomic and nomenclatural remarks on congeners, Zootaxa 3754 (4), pp. 450-460 : 451-452

Genus Loewia Egger

Thrychogena Rondani, 1856: 65 . Nomen oblitum (see O’Hara et al. 2011: 180 ); senior but invalid synonym of Loewia Egger, 1856 . Type species: Thrychogena brevifrons Rondani, 1856 , by monotypy.

Loewia Egger, 1856: 386 . Nomen protectum (see O’Hara et al. 2011: 180); junior but valid synonym of Thrychogena Rondani, 1856 . Type species: Loewia setibarba Egger, 1856 , by monotypy.

Thricogena Rondani, 1859: 242 . Unjustified emendation of Thrychogena Rondani, 1856 . This is one of two original spellings of the name in Rondani (1859), the other being Tricogena . Acting as the First Reviser, O’Hara et al. (2011: 179 ) selected Thricogena as the correct original spelling.

Fortisia Rondani, 1861: 94 . Type species: hereby fixed under Article 70.3.2 of ICZN (1999) as Loewia nudigena Mesnil, 1973 , misidentified as Tachina foeda Meigen, 1824 (as “ F. Phaeda Wdm. Mgn. (non Macq.)”) in the fixation by monotypy of Rondani (1861).

Thrichogena Bezzi, 1894: 305 (in synonymy with Loewia Egger, 1856 ), 352 (index). Unjustified emendation of Thrychogena Rondani, 1856 (see O’Hara et al. 2011: 268).

Oestroloewia Mesnil, 1953: 152 . Type species: Oestroloewia crassipes Mesnil, 1953 , by monotypy.

Thrychogrna. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Thrychogena Rondani, 1856 . This spelling first appeared in the Junk 1914 facsimile edition of Rondani (1856) and was unwittingly attributed to the original Rondani (1856) by Herting (1984: 109, 190) (see O’Hara et al. 2011: 201).

Trichogena . Incorrect subsequent spelling of Thrychogena Rondani, 1856 ( Bezzi & Stein 1907: 403, in synonymy with Loewia ; Mesnil 1973: 1204, in synonymy with Loewia , p. 1205, as subgenus of Loewia ; Herting 1984: 109).

Tricogena . Incorrect original spelling of Thricogena Rondani, 1859 ( Rondani 1859: 84, as “ Tricogenae ” in Latin) (see O’Hara et al. 2011: 183 ).

Selected references: Thompson (1915) (biology and pre-imaginal instars of L. foeda ); Herting (1971) (key to European species, with description of a new species); Richter (1972) (description of a new species from the Caucasus); Wood & Wheeler (1972) (first record of L. foeda for the Nearctic Region and redescription); Mesnil (1973) (redescription, with key to Palaearctic species); Herting (1983) (taxonomy of L. rondanii Villeneuve, 1920a ); Herting (1984) (Palaearctic catalogue); Tschorsnig (1985) (morphology of male terminalia); Wood (1987) (key to Nearctic genera); Tschorsnig & Herting (1994) (key to genera and species of Central Europe); Ziegler (1996) (description of a new species from Crete); Tschorsnig & Richter (1998) (key to Palaearctic genera); Tschorsnig et al. (2004) (checklist of European species); Cerretti (2010) (redescription, with key to West- Palaearctic species); O’Hara et al. (2011) (nomenclatural revision of Rondani’s genus-group names); Cerretti et al. (2012) (interactive key to Palaearctic genera).