Ocydromia Meigen, 1820

Evenhuis, Neal L., 2010, Type designations of Diptera (Insecta) in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Zootaxa 2653, pp. 37-50 : 43

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scientific name	Ocydromia Meigen
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Ocydromia Meigen View in CoL View at ENA

Ocydromia Meigen, 1820: 351 View in CoL . Type species: Ocydromia ruficollis Meigen, 1820 View in CoL , by subsequent designation (Stephens in Richardson, 1836: 609).

Originally Included species: Empis glabricula Fallén, 1816 ; Ocydromia rufipes Meigen, 1820 View in CoL ; Ocydromia ruficollis Meigen, 1820 View in CoL ; Ocydromia flavipes Meigen, 1820 View in CoL (as “ Oc. flavipes View in CoL . Meg.”); Ocydromia scutellata Meigen, 1820 View in CoL .

Family: Hybotidae .

Current status: Valid genus [teste Yang et al. (2007: 333)].

Remarks: Previous catalogs (e.g., Chvála & Kovalev, 1986: 182; Yang et al., 2007: 333) have given the typification of this genus-group name as Empis glabricula Fallén, 1816 , by subsequent designation of Westwood (1840: 133). Acceptance of the type designation of Ocydromia ruficollis Meigen, 1820 by Stephens in Richardson (1836) would disrupt the stability of nomenclature and taxonomy of Ocydromia as it would place it as a senior synonym of Leptopeza Macquart, 1834 and would require a substitute genus-group name for the species currently placed in Ocydromia . The next available name for species currently treated in Ocydromia is Eucinesia Gistel, 1848 . Application to the ICZN to suppress the designation of Ocydromia ruficollis Meigen, 1820 by Stephens in Richardson (1836) to conserve the current generic concept of Ocydromia Meigen, 1820 is warranted.

References

Macquart, P. - J. - M. (1834) Insectes dipteres du nord de la France. Tome V. Athericeres: creophiles, oestrides, myopaires, conopsaires, scenopiniens, cephalopsides. L. Danel, Paris. 232 pp. [21 July] [The journal version in the Memoires de la Societe Royale des Sciences, Agriculture et Arts, Lille 1833: 137 - 368, came out in October; see Evenhuis (1997: 510) for dating.]

Meigen, J. W. (1820) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Zweiter Theil. F. W. Forstmann, Aachen. xxxvi + 363 pp. [December] [Dated from Evenhuis (1997).]

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.]

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).]

Yang, D., Zhang, K. - Y., Yao, G. & Zhang, J. - H. (2007) World catalog of Empididae (Insecta: Diptera). China Agricultural University Press, Beijing. vi + 599 pp. [1 June]