Genus Sphaerocera Latreille, 1804

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaerocera Latreille, P.A 1804. Tableau méthodique des insectes. pp. 129-200 in Latreille, P.A. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle: appliqée aux arts, principalement à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique: par une Société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs: avec des figures tirés des trois règnes de la nature. Paris : Deterville Vol. 24. [197].

  Type species:

   Sphaerocera curvipes Latreille, 1805 by subsequent monotypy, see Latreille, P.A. 1805. Histoire naturelle, Générale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Paris : F. Dufart Vol. 13 432 pp. [394].
• Cypsela 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.] [31] [invalid name; Unavailable name; work suppressed for the purposes of zoological nomenclature (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.
• Cypsela 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 (Evenhuis & Pape 2017)].
• Cypsela 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 [56] [Hendel (1908) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Cypsela as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. Hendel (1908) did not include any species. Coquillett (1910) was the first to include a species: Musca subsultans Linnaeus, 1767 [as “Musca subsultans Fabricius”], which is the type species by subsequent designation. Musca subsultans Linnaeus, 1767 is currently treated in Sphaerocera Latreille, 1804, which makes Cypsela Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Sphaerocera Latreille, 1804 (Evenhuis & Pape 2017)].

  Type species:

   Musca subsultans Linnaeus, 1767 (as “Musca subsultans Fabricius”) 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 [530].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Roháček, J., Quiros, D.I. & Marshall, S.A. 2001. Subfamily Sphaerocerinae. pp. 86–108 in Roháček, J. (Ed.). World catalog of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera). Opava, Czech Republic : Slezské zemské muzeum 414 pp. [105]
• 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 [31]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

History of changes