Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy , 1830: 409

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133. Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 409 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Musca agilis Meigen, 1826 ; Dasyphora fervens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Dasyphora viridula Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Dasyphora fuliginosa Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .

TYPE SPECIES: Musca pratorum Meigen, 1826 ; hereby designated by fixation under ICZN Code Article 70.3.2; cited as Musca agilis Meigen, 1826 sensu Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , in the subsequent (but invalid) designation by Hennig (1963b: 945).

CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Pont (1986b: 105)].

FAMILY: MUSCIDAE .

REMARKS: Previous catalogs have given the type-species designation as by Townsend (1916: 6). Townsend designated “ Dasyphora agilis RD ” but there unfortunately is no such originally included species. Robineau-Desvoidy (1830: 409) gave the species as “ Dasyphora agilis .” and placed “ Musca agilis . Meig.” in synonymy. Thus the included nominal species is a Meigen species and not one by Robineau- Desvoidy. The first type designation to give the proper included species is by Hennig (1963b: 945) who stated “ Gattungstypus von Dasyphora : ‘ D. agilis Meigen ’ sensu Rob.-Desv. (= pratorum Meigen : Bestimmung durch Townsend ...)”. Under the ICZN Code, a fixation of the taxonomic species involved in a misidentification is only valid when reference is made to Article 70.3.2. We are aware that 70.3.2 explicitly deals with earlier type designations, here interpreted as valid designations, but no other Article in the ICZN Code covers the present situation.