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86. Carcelia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 176 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Carcelia lepida Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia bombylans Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830; Carcelia festiva Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Musca puparum Fabricius, 1794 ; Carcelia vernalis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia macroura Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia amoena Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia rubrella Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia distincta Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830; Carcelia duponcheli Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia nigripes Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia plusiae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia rapida Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia diversa Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia bombycivora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia scutellaris Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia grisea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia fuscipennis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia aurifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Carcelia velox Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830; Carcelia flavescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .

TYPE SPECIES: Carcelia bombylans Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , by subsequent designation ( Coquillett, 1910: 518).

CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus and subgenus [teste Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 212)].

FAMILY: TACHINIDAE .

REMARKS: Coquillett (1910: 518) stated that Robineau-Desvoidy (1863a: 220) designated “ Tachina gnava MEIGEN (as bombylans , new species)”. This is incorrect. Robineau-Desvoidy (1863a: 220) designated “ Tachina gnava, Meig. ”, which was not one of the originally included species, and no included species in Robineau-Desvoidy (1830) were put into synonymy with it. Ironically, although specifically designating Tachina gnava Meigen as the type species of Carcelia, Robineau-Desvoidy (1863a: 239) clearly removed it altogether from the genus by stating under Carcelia bombylans : “ C’est à tort que les diptèrologistes français l’ont rapportée au Tachina gnava de Meigen , qui n’appartient même pas à cette section, ainsi que je m’en suis assuré ”. Monceaux, in putting together the manuscript notes of the late Robineau-Desvoidy to produce the two-volume posthumous work, must have made an error in the species Robineau-Desvoidy actually intended for this genus. But in any case, by mentioning the designation of Carcelia bombylans (an originally included species) as the type, Coquillett (1910) is the earliest designation of an originally included species. Townsend (1916: 6) also designated Carcelia bombylans , but this was later.