Genus Siphona Meigen, 1803

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

  Type species:

   Musca geniculata De Geer, 1776 (I.C.Z.N., 1974: 157) by designation under Plenary Powers, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1974. Opinion 1008. Siphona Meigen, 1803 and Haematobia Lepeletier and Serville, 1828 (Insecta: Diptera): designations of type-species under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 30: 157–158.
• Crocuta 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.] [39] [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.
• Bucentes Latreille, P.A. 1809. Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimus explicata. Parisiis et Argentorati : A. Koenig Vol. 4 399 pp. [339] [The ICZN (1974: 157 [Opinion 1008]) designated Musca geniculata De Geer, 1776 as the type species of Siphona Meigen, 1803, which makes Siphona Meigen, 1803 an objective senior synonym of Bucentes Latreille, 1809].

  Type species:

   Bucentes cineria Latreille, 1809 (= Musca geniculata De Geer, 1776) by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1974. Opinion 1008. Siphona Meigen, 1803 and Haematobia Lepeletier and Serville, 1828 (Insecta: Diptera): designations of type-species under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 30: 157–158.
• Crocuta 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)].
• Crocuta Bezzi, M. 1907. Der Gattungen der blutsaugenden Musciden (Dipt.). Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 7: 413–416 [414] [junior homonym; Preoccupied by Crocuta Kaup, 1828, junior synonym of Siphona Meigen, 1803. Bezzi (1907) was the first after Meigen (1800) to treat Crocuta as valid (being the senior synonym of Siphona Meigen, 1803), but he did not include any species. Hendel (1908) gave characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) but also did not include any species. Coquillett (1910) was the first to include a species (Musca geniculata De Geer, 1776), which is the type species by subsequent designation. Musca geniculata De Geer, 1776 is currently treated in Siphona Meigen, 1803, which makes Crocuta Bezzi, 1907 a junior synonym of Siphona Meigen, 1803. Stone (1941: 409) treated Crocuta as a synonym of Bucentes Latreille, 1809 because Musca geniculata De Geer, 1776 was its type species. Siphona Meigen, 1803 was originally proposed including a (later determined as misidentified) single species “Stomoxys irritans Fab.”. Workers had interpreted Siphona as either being a tachinid or as a muscid. Sabrosky (1971) gave details on the confusion in his application to the ICZN Commission. The ICZN Commission (ICZN 1974) solved the problem by designating Musca geniculata De Geer, 1776 as the type species of Siphona Meigen, 1803, which makes Siphona Meigen, 1803 an objective senior synonym of Bucentes Latreille, 1809 (Evenhuis & Pape 2017).].

  Type species:

   Musca geniculata De Geer, 1776 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 [528].

  Secondary source:

   Stone, A. 1941. The generic names of Meigen 1800 and their proper application (Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 34: 404–418; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1974. Opinion 1008. Siphona Meigen, 1803 and Haematobia Lepeletier and Serville, 1828 (Insecta: Diptera): designations of type-species under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 30: 157–158.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• O'Hara, J.E. & Wood, D.M. 2004. Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico. Memoirs on Entomology, International 18: i–iv + 1–410 [302]
• 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 [29]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes