Ceratophya Wiedemann, 1824: 14

EVENHUIS, NEAL L. & PONT, ADRIAN C., 2013, Nomenclatural studies toward a world catalog of Diptera genus-group names. III. Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann, Zootaxa 3638 (1), pp. 1-75 : 26

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scientific name	Ceratophya Wiedemann, 1824: 14
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ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Ceratophya notata Wiedemann, 1824 ; Ceratophya longicornis Wiedemann, 1824 .

TYPE SPECIES: Ceratophya notata Wiedemann, 1824 , by subsequent designation (Blanchard in Audouin et al., 1846: pl. 175).

CURRENT STATUS: Valid subgenus of Microdon Meigen, 1803 [ teste Thompson et al. (1976: 59) ].

FAMILY: SYRPHIDAE .

REMARKS: Thompson et al. (1976: 59) listed the type species as Ceratophya notata Wiedemann by subsequent designation of Coquillett (1910: 520), but this was later. Sabrosky (1999) made the change to the earlier Blanchard in Audouin et al. (1846) type species designation but listed Ceratophya as a junior synonym of Microdon Meigen, 1803 . Concerning its placement as a synonym, note # 1 in Sabrosky (1999: 79) reads “Authors disagree. Ceratophya is either a subgenus of Microdon or a distinct genus.” In their recent generic conspectus of microdontine flower flies ( Cheng & Thompson, 2008), Ceratophya is relegated to a “distinct subgroup” of Microdon without indicating if it is a species-group or subgenus. Due to the equivocal nature of its placement in that conspectus, we instead follow the latest clear placement of Ceratophya Wiedemann, 1824 as a subgenus of Microdon Meigen, 1803 in Thompson et al. (1976).

EMENDATIONS: Ceratophyia Osten Sacken, 1858 : xx, 89 (unjustified), n. syn.

References

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Cheng X. - y. & Thompson, F. C. (2008) A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China. Zootaxa, 1879, 21 - 48. [17 September]

Coquillett, D. W. (1910) The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 37, 499 - 647. [4 August] http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.37 - 1719.499

Meigen, J. W. (1803) Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europaischen zweiflugligen Insekten. Magazin der Insektenkunde, 2, 259 - 281. [after 17 May] [Dated from Thompson et al. (1999: 476).]

Osten Sacken, C. R. (1858) Catalogue of the described Diptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 3 (1), xx + 92 pp. [April] [For dating, see Evenhuis (1997: 581).]

Sabrosky, C. W. (1999) Family group names in Diptera. An annotated catalog. Myia, 10, 1 - 360. [15 March] [Dated from Woodley (2001).]

Thompson, F. C., Vockeroth, J. R. & Sedman, Y. S. (1976) Family Syrphidae. A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States, 46, 1 - 195. [9 August]

Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1824) Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniensi maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Regio typographeo scholarum, Kiliae [= Kiel]. 60 pp., 1 pl. [June] [Date recorded in Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung.]