Genus Scenopinus Latreille, 1802

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• Scenopinus Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)] [463].

  Type species:

   Musca fenestralis Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Omphrale 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.] [29] [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.
• Omphrale 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] [Hendel (1908) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Omphrale as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. Hendel (1908) included a single species: Musca senilis Fabricius, 1794, which is the type species by monotypy. Musca senilis Fabricius, 1794 is currently treated in Scenopinus Latreille, 1802, which makes Omphrale Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Scenopinus Latreille, 1802. Melville (1960) considered Meigen’s (1800) Omphrale to be synonymous with Hypselura Meigen, 1803. Hendel (1908) also listed Hypselura Meigen, 1803 as a synonym of Omphrale but listed Scenopinus Latreille, 1802 as a senior synonym to Hypselura Meigen, 1803. Meigen (1804) did not treat species of Scenopinus Latreille, 1802 in the main text, but in the “Einleitung” (p. xxii) noted that his Hypselura was the same as Latreille’s Scenopinus (Evenhuis & Pape 2017).].

  Type species:

   Musca senilis Fabricius, 1794 (= Musca fenestralis Linnaeus, 1758) by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Meigen, J.W. 1804. Klassifikazion und Beschreibung der europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten (Diptera Linn.). Erster Band. Abt. 1 pp. i–xxviii 1–152 pls 1–8; Abt 2 i–vi 153–314 pls 9–15. Braunschweig [=Brunswick] : Reichard. [Pages 296 or 297 were never printed, but no text is missing. The text on page 298 follows directly after page 295 (Evenhuis & Pape 2017)]; Melville, R.V. 1960. Report on Mr. C.W. Sabrosky's proposal for the suppression under the plenary powers of the pamphlet entitled "Nouvelle classification des mouches a deux ailes" by J.W. Meigen, 1800. Z.N.(S).191. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 18: 9-64; 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 [43].
• Lucidomphrale Kröber, O. 1937. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Omphraliden (Scenopiniden), Diptera. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 98: 211-231 [Date published 20 December] [219].

  Type species:

   Scenopinus lucida Becker, 1902 by original designation.
• Paromphrale Kröber, O. 1937. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Omphraliden (Scenopiniden), Diptera. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 98: 211-231 [Date published 20 December] [222].

  Type species:

   Scenopinus glabrifrons Meigen, 1824 by original designation.
• Scenopinula Paramonov, S.J. 1955. A review of Australian Scenopinidae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 634-653 [Date published December] [651].

  Type species:

   Scenopinula pallidipennis Paramonov, 1955 by monotypy.
• Scenopoeus Agassiz, 1846 [unjustified emendation of Scenopininus Latreille].
• Omphrale Bezzi, 1907 [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)].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sabrosky, C.W. 1999. Family group names in Diptera. An annotated catalog. Myia 9: 1–360 [223]
• 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 [43]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Scaenopius [error for Scenopinus].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Channel Country (CHC) ; NSW, Qld: Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Mulga Lands (ML) ; SA: Gawler (GAW) ; Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Dampierland (DL), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater

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