Lespesia Robineau-Desvoidy , 1863a: 567

Evenhuis, Neal L., O’Hara, James E., Pape, Thomas & Pont, Adrian C., 2010, 2373, Zootaxa 2373, pp. 1-265 : 97

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1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5330012

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scientific name

Lespesia Robineau-Desvoidy , 1863a: 567
status

 

277. Lespesia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863a: 567 View in CoL View at ENA .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Erycia ciliata Macquart, 1834 (as “ Masicera ciliata: Macq. ”).

TYPE SPECIES: Achaetoneura anisotae Webber, 1930 , by subsequent designation (I.C.Z. N., 1983: 97 [Opinion 1255]) .

CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste O’Hara & Wood (2004: 123)].

FAMILY: TACHINIDAE .

REMARKS: Erycia ciliata Macquart, 1834 was the only species listed but Robineau-Desvoidy misidentified it. The I.C.Z.N. (1983: 97 [Opinion 1255]) designated Achaetoneura anisotae Webber, 1930 as the type species and at the same time placed Lespesia on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology.

O'Hara, J. E. & Wood, D. M. (2004) Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico. Memoirs on Entomology, International, 18, iv + 410 pp. [3 January]

Robineau-Desvoidy, J. - B. (1863 a) Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris. Oeuvre posthume du D r Robineau-Desvoidy publiee par les soins de sa famille, sous la direction de M. H. Monceaux. Tome premier. Masson et fils, Paris, Wagner, Leipzig, and Williams & Norgate, London. xvi + 1143 pp. [11 January] [Announced as published by Monceaux at the 11 January meeting of the Societe.]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae