Dyctia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 692

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149. Dyctia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 692 .

ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Dyctia herbarum Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Dyctia claripennis Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830; Dyctia nebulosa Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Dyctia palustris Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Dyctia nigricornis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Dyctia paludosa Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ; Dyctia guerini Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 .

TYPE SPECIES: Dyctia herbarum Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Sciomyza cinerella Fallén, 1820 ], by present designation.

CURRENT STATUS: Junior synonym of Pherbellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 , n. syn.

FAMILY: SCIOMYZIDAE .

REMARKS: In listing this genus-group name, Robineau-Desvoidy (1830: 692) stated “ Le genre Dyctie, établi et ensuite rejeté par M. Latreille ”. Latreille never published the name “ Dyctia ”, so this comment may have referred to a label on a specimen that Robineau-Desvoidy saw, or to communication between Robineau-Desvoidy and Latreille since Latreille was one of the examiners of the 1826 manuscript of the 1830 work in which this name appeared. We disagree with the interpretation that this was a misspelling of the genus-group name Dictya Meigen, 1803 since the examiners of the 1826 manuscript informed Robineau-Desvoidy of Meigen’s works and Robineau-Desvoidy subsequently tried to interpret Meigen’s taxa as best he could, but he does not refer to Meigen anywhere in the section dealing with Dyctia and its included species. We follow Neave (1939: 170) in listing this as a proposal of a new genus-group name.