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Myrmecomya Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

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348. Myrmecomya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 721.

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Myrmecomya formicaria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; Myrmecomya micropezoidea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (as “ Myrmecomya micropezoïdea. R. D.”).

TYPE SPECIES: Myrmecomya formicaria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Cephalia rufipes Meigen, 1826], by subsequent designation (Coquillett, 1910: 573).

CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Cephalia Meigen, 1826 [teste Sabrosky (1999: 208)].

FAMILY: ULIDIIDAE.

EMENDATIONS: Myrmecomyia Agassiz, 1846b: 243 (unjustified); Myrmecomyia Loew, 1873: 18 (unjustified).

Notes

Published as part of Evenhuis, Neal L., O'Hara, James E., Pape, Thomas & Pont, Adrian C., 2010, 2373, pp. 1-265 in Zootaxa 2373 on page 116

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References

  • Robineau-Desvoidy, J. - B. (1830) Essai sur les myodaires. Memoires presentes par divers savans a l'Academie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France (Sciences Mathematiques et Physiques), (2) 2, 813 pp. [6 June] [Date recorded as received in Bibliographie de la France.]
  • Meigen, J. W. (1826) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Funfter Theil. Schulz, Hamm. xii + 412 pp. [after 1 August] [Date of preface.]
  • Coquillett, D. W. (1910) The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 37, 499 - 647. [4 August]
  • Sabrosky, C. W. (1999) Family group names in Diptera. An annotated catalog. Myia, 10, 1 - 360. [before 4 April]
  • Agassiz, L. (1846 b) Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum, nec non variis adnotationibus et emendationibus. [= Fasc. XII]. " 1847 ". Jent & Gassman, Soloduri [= Solothurn, Switzerland]. viii + 393 pp. [29 December] [For dating, see Evenhuis (1997: 50 - 52).]
  • Loew, H. (1873) Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part III. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 11 [= No. 256], vii + 351 + XIII pp. [December]