Calopterella Coquillett 1910
Creators: name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Diastatidae
Calopterella

description: 16. Calopterella Coquillett, 1910c: 517, 616.
ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Diastata vagans Loew, 1864; Diastata adusta Meigen, 1830.
TYPE SPECIES: Diastata adusta Meigen, 1830, automatic [the same species by subsequent designation for Trichoptera Lioy, 1864 by Coquillett (1910c: 616)].
CURRENT STATUS: New replacement name for Trichoptera Lioy, 1864; junior synonym of Diastata Meigen, 1830 [teste Mathis & Barraclough (2011: 243)].
FAMILY: DIASTATIDAE.
REMARKS: In proposing the replacement name Calopterella for the preoccupied Trichoptera Lioy, 1864, Coquillett (1910c: 517; Calopterella mislabeled as “new genus”, but it was obviously meant to replace Trichoptera Lioy, which is clearly indicated as “preoccupied”) designated Diastata vagans Loew, 1864 as its type species. At the time of Coquillett’s (1910c) work, Trichoptera Lioy was without a type species, so a type fixation was needed from the two originally included species. In the same work, but further on alphabetically under the entry for Trichoptera Lioy, 1864, Coquillett (1910c: 616) indicated Calopterella was a new replacement name for Trichoptera Lioy, 1864 and designated Diastata adusta Meigen, 1830 as the type species for Calopterella. Thus, there are two type species for the same generic concept. Fortunately, Diastata vagans Loew, 1864 [December] was described subsequent to (and was not one of the two species originally included in) Trichoptera by Lioy (1864 [22 June]) [which were Diastata adusta Meigen, 1830 and Diastata claripennis Macquart, 1835], so Diastata vagans Loew, 1864 is an invalid designation on page 517. The type species for both Calopterella Coquillett, 1910c and Trichoptera Lioy, 1864 is thus Diastata adusta Meigen, 1830. Mathis & Barraclough (2011: 243) interpreted Coquillett’s Calopterella on page 517 as a proposal of a new genus (not a new replacement name), acted as First Revisers, and chose the nomenclatural act of Calopterella (page 517) over Calopterella (page 616). However, since Coquillett was replacing Trichoptera Lioy, 1864, which was clearly marked as preoccupied, their First Reviser action is invalid as the type fixation of Diastata vagans Loew, 1864 on page 517 because it a species that was not originally included in Lioy (1864).
[Carphotriche] Coquillett, 1899j: 264.
CURRENT STATUS: Incorrect subsequent spelling of Carphotricha Loew, 1862c.
FAMILY: TEPHRITIDAE.
REMARKS: Criteria to make this name available as an emendation were not found to be fulfilled in this work.
[Cassidomyia] Coquillett, 1890: 234.
CURRENT STATUS: Incorrect subsequent spelling of Cassidaemyia Macquart, 1835 or subsequent usage of Cassidomyia by Packard (1869).
FAMILY: TACHINIDAE.
REMARKS: Criteria to make this name available as an emendation were not found to be fulfilled in this work. The earliest mention of Cassidaemyia Macquart, 1835 that I have found in this study using the spelling “ Cassidomyia ” is by Packard (1869: 408) as an incorrect subsequent spelling [teste this study].
description: Published as part of Evenhuis, Neal L., 2018, Nomenclatural studies toward a World List of Diptera genus-group names. Part VI: Daniel William Coquillett, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 4381 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4381.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3769359