Chrysogaster
- Dataset
- Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen’s 1800 pamphlet
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Syrphidae
- genus
- Chrysogaster
description
FAMILY: SYRPHIDAE.
description
[Chrysogaster] Meigen, 1800: 32. 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 Chrysogaster Meigen, 1803 [teste Peck (1988: 133)].
discussion
REMARKS: Chrysogaster was originally proposed by Meigen (1800: 32) 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]). Meigen (1803: 274) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon and to treat Chrysogaster as valid, which makes the name available from that work. Meigen (1803: 274) included three nominal species: Musca cemiteriorum Linnaeus, 1758 [as “ Syrphus coemiteriorum ... Fabr. ”], Syrphus metallina Fabricius, 1777, “ Syrphus umbrarum Fabr. ” [the third included name “ Syrphus umbrarum Fabr. ” was never described and is a nomen nudum ‛]. Drapiez’s (1837: 416) designation of “ l’ Eristalis coemiteriorum de Fab., est le type de la première division de ce genre, et le Chrysogaster elegans, Meig., celui de l’autre ”, is invalid because two type species are designated for the same genus. Zetterstedt (1843: 816) designated Musca solstitialis Linnaeus, 1758 [as “ Chrysogaster solstitialis ”] with “ Musca coemiteriorum Linn. ” in questionable synonymy, thus this is also invalid. Coquillett (1910 a: 523) designated Musca cemiteriorum Linnaeus, 1758 (as “ coemiteriorum Fabricius ”) and is the earliest subsequent designation for Chrysogaster Meigen, 1803.
materials_examined
TYPE SPECIES: Musca cemiteriorum Linnaeus, 1758 [as “ coemiteriorum Fabricius ”], by subsequent designation (Coquillett 1910 a: 523). CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Peck (1988: 133)].
Name
- Homonyms
- Chrysogaster