Astyra Boeck, 1871

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Genus Astyra Boeck, 1871

Astyra Boeck, 1871: 53 ; type species: Astyra abyssi Boeck, 1871 .

Chagosia Walker, 1909: 332–333 ; type species: Chagosia gardineri Walker, 1909 .

Parastyra Pirlot, 1934: 176 ; type species: Parastyra longidactyla Pirlot, 1934 .

Astyra – Boeck 1876: 442. — G.O. Sars 1892: 213. — Della Valle 1893: 693–694. — Gerstaecker & Ortmann 1901: 502. — Stebbing 1906: 278. — Stephensen 1928: 228; 1931: 256 (discussion). — Gurjanova 1951: 596, 597. — Birstein & Vinogradov 1955: 253–254. — J.L. Barnard 1969: 115, 161. — Holman & Watling 1983: 31 (discussion). — Andres & Lott 1986: 132. — J.L. Barnard & Karaman 1991: 703–704. — Andres 1997: 82. — Berge 2003b: 2 (discussion). — Berge & Vader 2005a: 1345 (discussion).

Parastyra – Gurjanova 1951: 596, 598.

Etymology

“ Astyra , a town of Mysia, Mela, Pliny: Strabo calls it a hamlet, near which is a grove of Diana, thence named Astyrena: this Astyra is near Adramytrium, and to be distinguished from another near Abydos, which had a gold mine, Strabo. This last was a town of Troas; in ruins in Strabo’s time” ( MacBean 1773). Stebbing (1888: 1668) suggested that the name Astyra derives from Αστυρα or Astura, which is the name of a river in Asturia ( Spain).