Maekistocera Wiedemann, 1821c: 41

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 : 31

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scientific name	Maekistocera Wiedemann, 1821c: 41
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Treatment

22. Maekistocera Wiedemann, 1821c: 41 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Nematocera fuscana Wiedemann, 1820 ; Tipula filipes Fabricius, 1805 (as “ Maekistocera filipes mihi”).

TYPE SPECIES: Tipula filipes Fabricius, 1805 , by subsequent designation [ Macquart, 1838: 59 (63)] .

CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus ( teste this work; see REMARKS under Megistocera below).

FAMILY: TIPULIDAE .

REMARKS: There are two original spellings of this genus-group name in Wiedemann (1821c): Maekistocera and Mackistocera (both on page 41). Acting as First Reviser, Maekistocera is here selected as the correct original spelling. Wiedemann (1828: 55) used the spelling Megistocera for the same generic concept, which as been used by virtually all subsequent workers but cannot be adopted through prevailing usage (ICZN Code Article 33.3.1; see REMARKS under Megistocera below).

EMENDATIONS: Moegistocera Macquart, 1834: 509 (unjustified).

[ Megistocera ] Wiedemann in Meigen, 1826: vi [ Wiedemann, 1828: 55].

CURRENT STATUS: Incorrect subsequent spelling of Maekistocera Wiedemann, 1821 .

FAMILY: TIPULIDAE .

REMARKS: Criteria to make this name available as an emendation were not found to be fulfilled in this work. Although most recent works use this spelling for the genus, it is not available through prevailing usage (ICZN Code Article 33.3.1) because attributions by subsequent authors are not back to the original spelling in Wiedemann (1821c) as required by the Article, but instead refer to the incorrect subsequent spelling in Wiedemann (1828).

References

Macquart, P. - J. - M. (1834) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome premiere. N. E. Roret, Paris. 578 pp. [31 March] [Dated from Evenhuis (1997: 512).]

Macquart, P. J. M. (1838) Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome premier. - 1 re partie. Roret, Paris. Pp. 5 - 221, 25 pls. [17 September] [The journal version in the Memoires de la Societe Royale des Sciences, Agriculture et Arts, Lille, 1838 (2), 9 - 225, came out on 27 October; see Evenhuis (1997: 512) for dating.]

Meigen, J. W. (1826) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Funfter Theil. Schulz, Hamm. xii + 412 pp. [after 1 August] [Date of preface.]

Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1821 c) Diptera exotica. Pars 1. Tabulis aeneis duabus. [Edition 2.] [No publisher], Kiliae [= Kiel]. xix + 224 pp., 2 pls. [August] [Dated from Revue Encyclopedique. The first plate is not numbered and is a reprinting of the plate in Wiedemann (1820 a).]

Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1828) Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks. Erster Theil. Schulz, Hamm. xxxii + 608 pp., 7 pls. [December] [Dated from the publisher Schulz's advertisement at the back of Zetterstedt, 1828, Fauna insectorum Lapponicum. Part I.]