Ceria Fabricius, 1794: 277

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 : 74

Ceria Fabricius, 1794: 277 .

Type species: Ceria clavicornis Weber, 1795 [= Musca conopsoides Linnaeus, 1758 ], by subsequent monotypy ( Weber 1795). Junior homonym of Ceria Scopoli, 1763 . Replaced by Ceriana Rafinesque, 1815 , nomen novum for Ceria Fabricius, 1794 (Syrphidae) .

Remarks. The name Ceria Scopoli, 1763 was originally proposed for two species of Scatopsidae . Fabricius (1794) proposed the name Ceria for a species of Syrphidae and his usage of the name became widely accepted in pre-1902 literature (P.A. Latreille, J.W. Meigen, J.W. Zetterstedt, G.H. Verrall, etc.).

A description of the only included species was given by Fabricius (1794), but inadvertently the specific name [ clavicornis ] was omitted. It first appeared in an index to the four volumes (1792–1794) of Fabricius’s Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta prepared by Weber (1795). Accordingly, the authorship of Ceria clavicornis is correctly attributed to Weber (1795) rather than Fabricius (1794). This interpretation of type fixation of Ceria Fabricius, 1794 is the same as that of Sabrosky (1999: 79) except that authorship of Ceria clavicornis was attributed in that work to Fabricius, 1795 not Weber, 1795.