Iteaphila maackii Loew

Sinclair, Bradley J. & Shamshev, Igor V., 2012, 3561, Zootaxa 3561, pp. 1-61 : 17

Iteaphila maackii Loew

Iteaphila maackii Loew, 1871: 252 . Type locality: Kultuk [Irkutsk Province, Russia] (incorrectly cited in Yang et al., 2007: 348), nomen dubium.

Type material examined: HOLOTYPE, ♂ labelled: “Kultuk/ v. Maak [hand-written]”; [very small purple label]; “10558”; “ Holotypus [red]”; “Zool. Mus. Berlin ” ( ZMHB).

Taxonomic notes. Loew (1871) described this species after a single specimen, which unfortunately was completely destroyed due to corrosion of the minuten pin. Loew’s species description was repeated in Engel’s (1941) review of Palearctic species. It is impossible to properly identify this species after its original description. Loew compared this species only with I. macquarti , however, the characters he noted indicate that I. maackii is rather similar to I. nitidula or I. furcata and possibly is a synonym of one of them ( Tuomikoski 1958). Subsequently, we prefer to recognize I. maackii as a nomen dubium (unrecognized species of Iteaphila ) and male specimens from the type locality are required to further assess the status of this species.

There are two original spellings of this species name in Loew (1871): maackii in the species header (p. 252) and index (p. 316) and maacki in the Remarks section (p. 253). By subsequent usage (Article 24.2.4 of ICZN 1999), Loew (1873: 216) acted as First Reviser and selected maackii as the correct original spelling.