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Classification
Platyura ochracea Meigen, 1818 [Invalid]
Nomenclature
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Genus: OrfeliaSpecies: Orfelia ochracea
Species:
Platyura ochracea Meigen, 1818
Usage:
invalid
Unacceptability Reason:
original name/combination
Reference:
BDWD record number:
83460
BDWD Status:
(Available, Invalid) Obsolete Combination / Rank
Comments:
Lectotype designated by Kjaerandsen et al., 2009: 32 (NMHN, JKJ- SPM-011815)
"Edwards (1924) must have misinterpreted the type series when he synonymized it with Platyura dorsalis Staeger, 1840 and P. nigriceps Walker, 1856. The type material of Platyura ochracea Meigen, 1818 at MNHN consists of three specimens, all labelled with circular labels on which "Meigen" is handwritten (Fig. 1A). The first specimen is a male Orfelia unicolor (Staeger, 1840), with a distinct brown pre-apical wing mark, from which the abdomen has been cleared and put in a glycerine vial. The second specimen is an Orfelia sp., also with a distinct brown pre-apical wing mark but lacking abdomen. The third specimen is a female Neoplatyura cf. flava (Macquart, 1826), labelled "ochracea" on a separate, square piece of paper, but without any pre-apical wing mark. The original description by Meigen (1818: 240) clearly states that the species he described has a pre-apical wing marking, both in the Latin diagnosis: “alis ante apicem fascia fusca”, and in the German description: “dicht vor der Spisse eine braune Querbinde”. At the same time Meigen indicated the type to be a female: “Im Junius im Walde das Weibchen”, but we find it more likely that he at that time misinterpreted the gender rather than the wing pattern. Nevertheless, among the type series, Edwards (1924) chose the female Neoplatyura cf. flava to represent the species and misinterpreted it as the female of P. nigriceps = P. dorsalis. Hence, since none of the specimens in the type series belongs to genus Urytalpa as presently defined, and the original description clearly excludes this genus as well, we find it appropriate and necessary to select a male among the two specimens in the type series with a brown pre-apical wing mark as the lectotype, thereby agreeing with the original description. Hence, we hereby declare the name-bearing type of Platyura ochracea Meigen, 1818 to be the male Orfelia with a distinct brown pre-apical wing mark."
Depository:
MNHN
Type Locality:
"im Walde"
Sex:
M
Type:
LT
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