Hirtea Fabricius, 1798: 547

Michelsen, Verner & O’Hara, James E., 2014, A review of genus-group names in Diptera (Insecta) that J. C. Fabricius “ borrowed ” from other dipterists and proposed as new in his systematic works from 1775 to 1805, Zootaxa 3873 (1), pp. 73-81 : 75

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scientific name	Hirtea Fabricius, 1798: 547
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Hirtea Fabricius, 1798: 547 , 551.

Type species: Tipula marci Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL (cited by Fabricius in synonymy with Tipula hortulana Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , the 2nd of 13 originally included species), by subsequent designation of Zetterstedt (1850: 3368). Junior homonym of Hirtea Scopoli, 1763 . Junior subjective synonym of Bibio Geoffroy, 1762 View in CoL (type species: Tipula hortulana Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL ) ( Bibionidae View in CoL ).

Remarks. Hirtea Scopoli, 1763 was originally proposed for a species of the family Stratiomyidae . Fabricius (1798) made his own proposal of the name Hirtea for 13 species belonging to the families Bibionidae (8), Sciaridae (2), Cecidomyiidae (1), Scatopsidae (1) and Therevidae (1). In his final classification, Fabricius (1805) included in Hirtea 14 Bibionidae , 1 Sciaridae and 1 Therevidae . Fabricius’s usage of the name Hirtea for bibionid flies became widely accepted in the pre-1850 literature (J.W. Meigen, G.W.F. Panzer, J.W. Zetterstedt, etc.), but was gradually replaced by the older name Bibio Geoffroy, 1762 . Incidentally, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1957: 88) placed Hirtea Fabricius, 1798 on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology (Name No. 840).