Genus Cordyla Meigen, 1803

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• Cordyla Meigen, J.W. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 2: 259-281 [263].
• Polyxena Meigen, 1800 [invalid name; Unavailable name; work suppressed for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of ICZN (1963)].
• Polyxena 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].
• Polyxena 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 [50] [Hendel (1908) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Polyxena as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. Hendel (1908) did not include any species. Stone (1941) was the first to include a species, Cordyla fusca Meigen, 1804, which is the type species by subsequent designation. Cordyla fusca Meigen, 1804 is currently treated in Cordyla Meigen, 1803, which makes Polyxena Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Cordyla Meigen, 1803].

  Type species:

   Cordyla fusca Meigen, 1804 by subsequent designation, see Stone, A. 1941. The generic names of Meigen 1800 and their proper application (Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 34: 404–418 [414].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hackman, W., Laštovska, P., Matile, L. & Väisänen, R. 1988. Family Mycetophilidae. pp. 220-327 in Soós, Á. & Papp, L. (eds). Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 3. Ceratopogonidae—Mycetophilidae. Amsterdam : Elsevier 448 pp. [309]
• 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 [49]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas: NSW North Coast (NNC), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH)

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