Genus Clinocera Meigen, 1803

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• Clinocera Meigen, J.W. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungs Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten. Illiger's Magazin für Insektenkunde 2: 259-281 [271].
• Atalanta Meigen, J.W. 1800. Nouvelle classification des mouches à deux ailes (Diptera L.) d'après un plan tout nouveau. Paris : Perronneau pp. 1-40. [This publication suppressed by the I.C.Z.N.] [31] [invalid name; Unavailable name; work suppressed for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of ICZN (1963)].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1963. Opinion 678; the suppression under the plenary powers of the pamphlet published by Meigen, 1800. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 20: 339-342.
• Atalanta Bezzi, M. 1907. Nomenklatorisches über Dipteren. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 26: 51-56 [56] [invalid name; Unavailable name; criteria to make the name available not fulfilled in this work. Bezzi (1907) included this name only in a list of Meigen 1800 names without stating their availability Evenhuis & Pape 2017)].
• Atalanta Hendel, F. 1908. Nouvelle classification des mouches à deux ailes (Diptera L.). D'après un plan tout nouveau par J.G. Meigen, Paris, an VIII (1800 v.s.). Mit Kommentar herausgegeben von Friedrich Hendel. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 58: 43-69 [60] [Preoccupied by Atalanta Stål, 1861 and Atalanta Seeley, 1864; Hendel (1908) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Atalanta as valid, which makes the name available from that work. Hendel (1908) did not include any species. Coquillett (1910) was the first to include a species (Clinocera nigra Meigen, 1804), which is the type species by subsequent designation. Clinocera nigra Meigen, 1804 is currently treated in Clinocera Meigen, 1803, which makes Atalanta Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Clinocera Meigen, 1803 (Evenhuis & Pape 2017)].

  Type species:

   Clinocera nigra Meigen, 1804 by subsequent designation, see Coquillett, D.W. 1910. The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 37(=No. 1719): 499-647 [511].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Yang, D., Zhang, K., Yao, G. & Zhang, J. 2007. World catalog of Empididae (Insecta: Diptera). pp. i-vi, 1-599. [54]
• Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T. 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): 1–74 [25]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR) ; ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM) ; NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA) ; Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

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