Phoraea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 600

Evenhuis, Neal L., O’Hara, James E., Pape, Thomas & Pont, Adrian C., 2010, 2373, Zootaxa 2373, pp. 1-265 : 133

425. Phoraea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 600 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Phoraea flavescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Phoraea scutellaris Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Phoraea myoidea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (as “ Phoraea myoïdea . R. D.”); Phoraea humeralis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .

TYPE SPECIES: Phoraea flavescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Musca testacea De Geer, 1776 ], by subsequent designation ( Coquillett, 1910: 588).

CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Pegomya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [teste Dely-Draskovits (1993: 76)].

FAMILY: ANTHOMYIIDAE .

REMARKS: Previous listings of the type species have it as a junior synonym of Anthomyia silacea Meigen, 1830 , but this is incorrect. Robineau-Desvoidy’s 1830 paper came out 6 June while Meigen’s 1830 paper came out six months later on 1 December [see References in this paper for dating of the former and Evenhuis (1997: 533) for dating of the latter]. Dely-Draskovits (1993: 85, 87) listed flavescens as a junior synonym of silacea but also had a separate entry where silacea was listed as a junior synonym of testacea . All three nominal taxa are now considered synonymous ( Michelsen, 2006).