Echinodes

Evenhuis, Neal L. & Pape, Thomas, 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), pp. 1-74 : 32-33

19. Echinodes

[ Echinodes ] Meigen, 1800: 38.

CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; work suppressed for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of I.C.Z.N. (1963: 339 [Opinion 678]); treated under Eriothrix Meigen, 1803 [teste Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 263)].

Echinodes Meigen in Hendel, 1908: 65 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Musca lateralis Fabricius, 1775 .

TYPE SPECIES: Musca lateralis Fabricius, 1775 [preoccupied by Musca lateralis Linnaeus, 1758 ; = Musca rufomaculata De Geer, 1776 ] by monotypy.

CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by Echinodes Zimmermann in LeConte, 1869 ; Echinodes Trouessart, 1881 ; Echinodes Jaquet, 1889 ; junior synonym of Eriothrix Meigen, 1803 . New synonymy.

FAMILY: TACHINIDAE .

REMARKS: Echinodes was originally proposed by Meigen (1800: 38) without included species and later made unavailable by the suppression of the entire work for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of the I.C.Z.N. (1963: 339 [Opinion 678]). Hendel (1908: 65) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Echinodes as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. Hendel (1908) included a single species: Musca lateralis Fabricius, 1775 , which is the type species by monotypy. Musca lateralis Fabricius, 1775 is currently treated in Eriothrix Meigen, 1803 [teste O’Hara et al. (2009: 37)], which makes Echinodes Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Eriothrix Meigen, 1803 , n. syn. Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 263) treated Echinodes Meigen, 1800 under Tachina Meigen, 1803 ; however, the type species ( Musca lateralis Fabricius, 1775 ) is currently treated in Eriothrix Meigen, 1803 [teste O’Hara et al. (2009: 37)].