Genus Xylota Meigen, 1822

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• Xylota Meigen, J.W. 1822. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Hamm : Schulz-Wundermann Vol. 3 x + 416 pp. [211].
• Zelima 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.] [34] [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 [339].
• Heliophilus Meigen, J.W. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 2: 259-281 [273].

  Type species:

   Musca sylvarum Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Zelima Hendel, F. 1903. Literatur. Diptera. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 22: 58–60 [58] [Preoccupied by Zelima Fabricius, 1807. Hendel (1903) proposed Zelima in synonymy by treating it as a synonym of Xylota Meigen, 1803, but did not include any species. Bezzi & Stein (1907) treated Zelima as a synonym of Xylota Meigen, 1803, and included 25 species (under Xylota). Hendel (1908) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Zelima as valid, which makes the name available from Hendel (1903). Coquillett (1910) selected Musca segnis Linnaeus, 1758, which is the type species by subsequent designation. Musca segnis Linnaeus, 1758 is currently treated in Xylota Meigen, 1822, which makes Zelima Hendel, 1903 a junior synonym of Xylota Meigen, 1822 (Evenhuis & Pape 2017)].

  Type species:

   Musca segnis Linnaeus, 1758 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 [621].

  Secondary source:

   Bezzi, M. & Stein, P. 1907. Cyclorrapha Aschiza. Cyclorrhapha Schizophora: Schizometopa. pp. 1-749 in Becker, T., Bezzi, M., Kertész, K. & Stein, P. (eds). Katalog der paläarktischen Dipteren. Budapest. [127]; 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 [58].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sabrosky, C.W. 1999. Family group names in Diptera. An annotated catalog. Myia 9: 1–360 [325]
• 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 [57]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

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