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Scatophila noctula
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Subspecies
Original
description
Synonyms
Ephydra noctula Meigen, 1830
Scatophila noctula (Meigen, 1830)
Ephydra flavitarsis Zetterstedt, 1846
Scatophila flavitarsis (Zetterstedt, 1846)
Scatella laevigata Loew, 1860
Scatophila laevigata (Loew, 1860)
Scatella polita (nomen nudum) (tentative synonym)
Scatophila silesiaca Becker, 1926
Scatophila nasuta Papp, 1975
The name Scatella polita is a nomen nudum, that appears in a list of
names in Loew (1860). However, it can be confidently identified as a
synonym of Scatophila noctula for the following reasons: Loew described
several species in the genus Scatella from all over Europe. At the end
of his work, he gave a list of those Scatella species that also occur
in Silesia. It is in this list that the name Scatella polita suddenly
appears without being described earlier in the work. However, the
location in the list shows that the name must be an abandoned name for
the nominal Scatella laevigata, that Loew used by lapsus calami: in the
main part of the work he describes the following nominal species in
this order: Scatella variegata, Scatella laevigata, Scatella pumilio,
all from Silesia. In the list of species of Silesiaca the names
reappear in the same order, but now as "Scatella variegata nov. spec.,
Scatella polita nov. spec., Scatella pumilio nov. spec.". Thus, it is
obvious that Scatella polita is a lapsus and should be Scatella
laevigata.
Identification
Distribution
Biology
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