Haematobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 388

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225. Haematobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 388 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Haematobia ferox Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Haematobia geniculata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Haematobia serrata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Haematobia tibialis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .

TYPE SPECIES: Haematobia ferox Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Conops irritans Linnaeus, 1758 , n. syn.], by present designation.

CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by Le Peletier & Serville, 1828; junior synonym of Haematobia Le Peletier & Serville, 1828 , n. syn.

FAMILY: MUSCIDAE .

REMARKS: Robineau-Desvoidy (1830: 388) proposed Haematobia as a new genus [which actually originated in his 1826 manuscript sent to the Académie des Sciences]. Le Peletier & Serville (1828) had proposed the same name and generic concept two years earlier [and credited Robineau-Desvoidy with the name “ Haematobia . Robin. ined.”], no doubt based on seeing Robineau-Desvoidy’s treatment of it in the Myodaires manuscript although it does not appear in the Blainville Rapport to the Académie des Sciences. But because there is no evidence in the Encyclopédie Méthodique itself that Robineau- Desvoidy gave anything more than the name, it must take the authorship of Le Peletier & Serville.

EMENDATIONS: Hoematobia Bigot, 1892: 192 (unjustified), n. syn.

[Haematomyza] Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863b: 391.

CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; proposed in synonymy and not made available before 1961; treated under Prosena Le Peletier & Serville, 1828 [teste this work].

FAMILY: TACHINIDAE .

REMARKS: Monceaux, in preparing the manuscript for Robineau-Desvoidy’s 1863 work, apparently misinterpreted Fallén’s (1818) Haematomyzides—a name above the family-group and given in the Latin genitive declension (“Haematomyzidum”) in the title of that work—as a genus-group name and put it in association with an available name (siberita; sensu Fallén). This is here interpreted as proposed in synonymy with Prosena Le Peletier & Serville, 1828 .