Tritonia

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 : 55

59. Tritonia

[ Tritonia ] Meigen, 1800: 33.

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 Temnostoma Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 [teste Peck (1988: 216)].

[ Tritonia ] 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.

Tritonia Meigen in Hendel, 1908: 61 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Musca diophthalma Linnaeus, 1758 [as “ S. diophthalmus ... F.”], Musca vespiformis Linnaeus, 1758 [as “ vespiformis F.”].

TYPE SPECIES: Musca vespiformis Linnaeus, 1758 , by subsequent designation ( Coquillett 1910a: 617).

CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by Tritonia Cuvier, 1798 ; Tritonia Geyer, 1832 ; junior synonym of Temnostoma Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 . New Synonymy.

FAMILY: SYRPHIDAE .

REMARKS: Tritonia was originally proposed by Meigen (1800: 33) 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: 61) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Tritonia as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. Hendel (1908) included two nominal species: Musca diophthalma Linnaeus, 1758 [as “ S. diophthalmus ... F.”], and Musca vespiformis Linnaeus, 1758 [as “ vespiformis F.”]. Coquillett (1910a: 617) designated Musca vespiformis Linnaeus, 1758 , which is the type species by subsequent designation. Musca vespiformis Linnaeus, 1758 is currently treated in Temnostoma Le Peletier & Serville, 1828 [teste Peck (1988: 216)], which makes Tritonia Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Temnostoma Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 , n. syn. When Coquillett (1910a: 617) selected Musca vespiformis Linnaeus, 1758 as type species for Tritonia , that species was treated in Spilomyia Meigen, 1803 . Musca vespiformis Linnaeus, 1758 has subsequently been found to be a species of Temnostoma Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 [e.g., Peck (1988: 216)], where we treat it here.