Amasia

Evenhuis, Neal L. & Pape, Thomas, 2017, Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen’s 1800 pamphlet, Zootaxa 4275 (1), pp. 1-74 : 22-23

1. Amasia

[ Amasia ] Meigen, 1800: 20.

CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; work suppressed for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of I.C.Z.N. (1963: 339 [Opinion 678]); treated under Penthetria Meigen, 1803 [teste Hendel (1908: 50)].

[ Amasia ] Bezzi, 1907a: 56.

CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; criteria to make the name available not fulfilled in this work. REMARKS: Bezzi (1907a) included this name only in a list of Meigen 1800 names without stating their availability or validity.

Amasia Meigen in Hendel, 1908: 50 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: None.

FIRST INCLUDED SPECIES: Penthetria funebris Meigen, 1804 [as “ Amasia funebris (Meig.) ”] (in Bezzi 1911: 39).

TYPE SPECIES: Penthetria funebris Meigen, 1804 [as “ Amasia funebris (Meig.) ”], by subsequent monotypy ( Bezzi 1911: 39).

CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by Amasia Dejean, 1835 ; Amasia Chapuis, 1874 ; junior synonym of Penthetria Meigen, 1803 . New Synonymy.

FAMILY: BIBIONIDAE .

REMARKS: Amasia was originally proposed by Meigen (1800: 20) without included species and later made unavailable by the suppression of the entire work for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of the I.C.Z.N. (1963: 339 [Opinion 678]). Hendel (1908: 50) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Amasia as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. However, Hendel (1908) did not include any species and, subsequently, Amasia had been treated as a “Genus dubium” (e.g., Stone 1941). The first included species we could find in this study is Penthetria funebris Meigen, 1804 [as “ Amasia funebris (Meig.) ”] (in Bezzi 1911: 39), where by the type species is by subsequent monotypy. Sabrosky (1999: 43), unaware of Bezzi’s (1911) inclusion of a species, indicated that Rohdendorf (1951: plate 65, figure 28B) had included a species ( Crapitula motschulskii Gimmerthal, 1845 ) in Amasia , but this was later. Penthetria funebris Meigen, 1804 is currently treated in Penthetria Meigen, 1803 [teste Krivosheina (1986: 314)], which makes Amasia Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Penthetria Meigen, 1803 , n. syn. NB: Bezzi (1911: 39) indicated an earlier mention of Amasia funebris by ( Schmitz 1909: 79), but a check of that article showed it to list the species as “ Penthetria holosericea ” without mentioning Amasia anywhere in the article.