Lycia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 637

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293. Lycia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 637 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Lycia flava Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Lycia quatuorpunctata Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830 (as “ Lycia quatuor-punctata . R. D.”); Lycia sexpunctata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (as

“ Lycia sex-punctata . R. D.”); Lycia impunctata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Lycia femoralis Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830; Lycia umbraculata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Lycia nigricornis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Lycia thoracica Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Lycia liturella Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Lycia liturata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .

TYPE SPECIES: Lycia flava Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Sapromyza rorida Fallén, 1820 ], by subsequent designation ( Coquillett, 1910: 563).

CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by Hübner, 1823; senior (but invalid) synonym of Meiosimyza Hendel, 1925 .

FAMILY: LAUXANIIDAE .

REMARKS: Hendel (1908: 3) designated Sapromyza rorida Fallén, 1820 as type species, but this was not an originally included species. Noting the name was preoccupied, Collin (1948: 237) replaced Lycia with Lyciella ; but oddly enough in that same paper (page 225) Collin synonymized Meiosimyza . As Meiosimyza Hendel, 1925 , new status, is the next available name, and as it is not preoccupied, it is treated as valid here. Lyciella , new status, is thus treated here as an invalid junior synonym of Meiosimyza Hendel, 1925 .