Tromera Swinderen , 1822: 87

Evenhuis, Neal L., 2020, The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano, Zootaxa 4859 (3), pp. 383-396 : 392

Tromera Swinderen, 1822: 87 .

TYPE SPECIES: Madiza glabra Fallén, 1820 , by monotypy .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Madiza Fallén, 1810 , n. syn.

FAMILY: MILICHIIDAE .

REMARKS: Swinderen’s descriptive word for the genus-group name as “Angstige” [= anxious; quivering] can be considered a behavioral trait and thus makes the generic name available. Additionally, the only included species ( glabra ) is determined here as Madiza glabra Fallén, 1820 [since it is the only species of acalyptrate flies with the specific name glabra that was described at that time], which can be unambiguously assigned to a nominal speciesgroup taxon makes the genus name available (Code Art. 12.2.5). Madiza glabra Fallén, 1820 is the type species of the milichiid genus Madiza Fallén, 1810 [teste I.C.Z.N. 1978: 109 [Opinion 1112]), thus, I here treat Tromera Swinderen, 1822 as a junior synonym of Madiza Fallén, 1810 , n. syn.