Mesembrina Meigen, 1826

Evenhuis, Neal L., 2010, Type designations of Diptera (Insecta) in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Zootaxa 2653, pp. 37-50 : 42

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Mesembrina Meigen View in CoL

Mesembrina Meigen, 1826: 10 View in CoL . Type species: Mesembrina meridiana Meigen, 1826 View in CoL , by subsequent designation (Stephens in Richardson, 1836: 116).

Originally Included species: Musca meridiana Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL ; Musca mystacea Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL (with Syrphus apiara Gmelin, 1790 , Musca bombylius De Geer, 1776 View in CoL , Syrphus apiformis De Geer, 1776 View in CoL , and Musca bombyloides Sulzer, 1776 View in CoL in synonymy).

Family: Muscidae .

Current status: Valid genus [teste Pont (1986: 84)].

Remarks: Previous catalogs (e.g., Pont, 1986: 84; Sabrosky, 1999: 193) have given the typification for this genus-group name as Mesembrina meridiana Meigen, 1826 , by subsequent designation of Westwood (1840: 141).

References

Meigen, J. W. (1826) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Funfter Theil. Schulz, Hamm. xii + 412 pp. [after 1 August] [Date of preface.]

Pont, A. C. (1986) Family Muscidae, pp. 57 - 215. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 11. Scathophagidae - Hypodermatidae. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest. 346 pp. [15 February] [Dated from Evenhuis (2008).]

Richardson, C. (1836) [Lexicon]. In: Smedley, E., Rose, Hugh J. & Rose, Henry J. (eds.), Encyclopaedia metropolitana: or universal dictionary of knowledge, on an original plan: comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement. Volume XXII. [Miscellaneous & lexicographical, Vol. 9]. B. Fellows, L. & J. Rivington; Duncan and Malcolm; Suttaby and Co.; E. Hodgson; J. Dowding; G. Lawford; J. M. Richardson; J. Bohn; T. Allman; J. Bain; S. Hodgson; F. C. Westley; L. A. Lewis; T. Hodges; H. Washbourne, London; J. H. Parker; T. Laycock, Oxford; J. and J. J. Deighton, Cambridge. 779 pp. [31 December +] [Dated from London Catalogue of Books. According to the table of contents for this volume, Richardson was responsible for the entire lexicon and within it J. F. Stephens was the author of the invertebrate zoology entries.]

Sabrosky, C. W. (1999) Family group names in Diptera. An annotated catalog. Myia, 10, 1 - 360. [before 4 April]

Westwood, J. O. (1840) Order XIII. Diptera Aristotle. (Antliata Fabricius. Halteriptera Clairv.), pp. 125 - 154. In his: An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families. Synopsis of the genera of British insects. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, London. 158 pp. [June] [Dated from Evenhuis (1997).]