Nycteria Swinderen , 1822: 86

Evenhuis, Neal L., 2020, The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano, Zootaxa 4859 (3), pp. 383-396 : 389

Nycteria Swinderen, 1822: 86 .

TYPE SPECIES: Musca noctiluca Linnaeus, 1758 , by monotypy .

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Pipiza Fallén, 1810 , n. syn.

FAMILY: SYRPHIDAE .

REMARKS: Swinderen’s descriptive word for the genus-group name “Nachtvlieger” [= night flyer] is construed as a behavioral character used to differentiate, thus making the generic name available. Additionally, the inclusion of a single available specific name ( noctiluca ) [= Musca noctiluca Linnaeus, 1758 ] makes the genus-group name available by including a specific name that can be unambiguously assigned to a nominal species-group taxon (ICZN Code Art. 12.2.5). Musca noctiluca Linnaeus, 1758 is the type species of the syrphid genus Pipiza Fallén, 1810 [teste Mutin (2002: 2)], thus I treat Nycteria Swinderen, 1822 as a junior synonym of Pipiza Fallén , n. syn.