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Rutilia Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Description

476. Rutilia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 319.

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Musca leonina Fabricius, 1776; Rutilia formosa Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (as “ Musca formosa. Donavan”); Tachina vivipara Fabricius, 1805; Rutilia durvillei Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830.

TYPE SPECIES: Tachina vivipara Fabricius, 1805, by subsequent designation (Crosskey, 1967: 26).

CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Cantrell & Crosskey (1989: 744)].

FAMILY: TACHINIDAE.

REMARKS: Townsend (1916: 8) had long been considered as the earliest subsequent designation for Rutilia Robineau-Desvoidy, but the species “ Rutilia vivipara RD ” designated by Townsend does not exist and is ambiguous because it could either mean a species misidentified by Robineau-Desvoidy as Tachina vivipara Fabricius, 1805 or the true Tachina vivipara Fabricius, 1805. Noting that Townsend’s (1916) and other previous type-species designations were invalid, Crosskey (1967: 26) clearly laid out the nomenclatural history of Rutilia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 and designated Tachina vivipara Fabricius, 1805 as the type species.

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 145

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SPECIES
Scientific name authorship
Robineau-Desvoidy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Rutilia
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Rutilia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 sec. Evenhuis, O'Hara, Pape & Pont, 2010

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.]
  • Crosskey, R. W. (1967) An index-catalogue of the genus-group names of Oriental and Australasian Tachinidae (Diptera) and their type-species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 20, 1 - 39. [17 April] [Date of BMNH library stamp.]
  • Cantrell, B. K. & Crosskey, R. W. (1989) Family Tachinidae, pp. 733 - 784. In: Evenhuis, N. L. (ed.), Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu & E. J. Brill, Leiden. 1155 pp. [23 August] [Dated from Evenhuis (2008 b).]
  • Townsend, C. H. T. (1916) Designations of muscoid genotypes, with new genera and species. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 4, 4 - 12. [31 March]