Polymeda

Evenhuis, Neal L. & Pape, Thomas, 2017, Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen’s 1800 pamphlet, Zootaxa 4275 (1), pp. 1-74 : 48-49

47. Polymeda

[ Polymeda ] Meigen, 1800: 14.

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 Erioptera Meigen, 1803 [teste Savchenko et al. (1992: 252)].

[ Polymeda ] Osten Sacken, 1882: 193.

CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; criteria to make the name available not fulfilled in this work.

REMARKS: Osten Sacken (1882) included this name only in a list of Meigen 1800 names without stating their availability.

[ Polymeda ] Bezzi, 1907a: 56.

CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; criteria to make the name available not fulfilled in this work. REMARKS: Bezzi (1907a) included this name only in a list of Meigen 1800 names without stating their availability.

Polymeda Meigen in Hendel, 1908: 46 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: None.

FIRST INCLUDED SPECIES: Erioptera lutea Meigen, 1804 (in Coquillett 1910a: 593).

TYPE SPECIES: Erioptera lutea Meigen, 1804 , by subsequent designation ( Coquillett 1910a: 593).

CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Erioptera Meigen, 1803 [teste Savchenko et al. (1992: 252)].

FAMILY: LIMONIIDAE .

REMARKS: Polymeda was originally proposed by Meigen (1800: 14) 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]). Hendel (1908: 46) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Polymeda as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. Hendel (1908) did not include any species. Coquillett (1910a: 593) was the first to include a species: Erioptera lutea Meigen, 1804 , which is the type species by subsequent designation. Erioptera lutea Meigen, 1804 is currently treated in Erioptera Meigen, 1803 [teste Savchenko et al. (1992: 252)], which makes Polymeda Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Erioptera Meigen, 1803 , n. syn.