Genus Limonia Meigen, 1803

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• Limonia Meigen, J.W. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 2: 259-281 [262].

  Type species:

   Tipula tripunctata Fabricus, 1782 by subsequent designation, see Westwood, J.O. 1840. An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families. Synopsis of the genera of British insects [part]. Order XIII. Diptera Aristotle. (Antliata Fabricius. Halteriptera Clairv.). London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans pp. 125-154. [129].
• Amphinome 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.] [15] [publication suppressed see ICZN (1963); junior homonym of Amphinome Bruguière, 1792 (Polychaeta)].

  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; 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 [23].
• Limnobia Meigen, J.W. 1818. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Erster Theil. Aachen : F.W. Forstmann xxxvi 332 pp. [116] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Limonia Meigen, 1803].
• Unomyia Meigen, J.W. 1818. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Erster Theil. Aachen : F.W. Forstmann xxxvi 332 pp. [135] [junior objective synonym of Limonia Meigen, 1803].

  Type species:

   Tipula tripunctata Fabricus, 1782 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 [618].
• Limnomyza Rondani, C. 1856. Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol: I. Genera Italica ordinis Dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familias et stirpes aggregata. Parmae [= Parma] : A. Stoschi 226 + [2] pp. [185] [junior objective synonym of Limonia Meigen, 1803].

  Type species:

   Tipula tripunctata Fabricus, 1782 by original designation.
• Amphinome 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 (see Evenhuis & Pape 2017)].
• Amphinome 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 [47] [Preoccupied by Amphinome Bruguière, 1792; Hendel (1908) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Amphinome as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. Hendel (1908) included five available species-group names, but did not select a type species from among them. Coquillett (1910) was the first to designate Tipula tripunctata Fabricius, 1781, as type species of Amphinome from these five originally included species. Tipula tripunctata Fabricius, 1781 is currently treated in Limonia Meigen, 1803, which makes Amphinome Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Limonia Meigen, 1803 (Evenhuis & Pape 2017)].

  Type species:

   Tipula tripunctata Fabricius, 1781 (preoccupied by Tipula tripunctata,/em> Müller, 1764 = Tipula phragmitidis,/em> Schrank, 1781) by subsequent designation.