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Case 3869: Platyptera Meigen, 1803 and Rhamphomyia Meigen, 1822 (Insecta, Diptera, EMPIDIDAE): conservation of usage of the generic names by designation of Empis borealis Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species of Platyptera

Neal L. Evenhuis, Miroslav Barták, Bradley J. Sinclair, “Case 3869: Platyptera Meigen, 1803 and Rhamphomyia Meigen, 1822 (Insecta, Diptera, EMPIDIDAE): conservation of usage of the generic names by designation of Empis borealis Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species of Platyptera”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 82, 2025.

The purpose of this application, under Article 70.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, is to conserve the current usage of the generic names Platyptera Meigen, 1803 (currently a subgenus of Empis Linnaeus, 1758) and  Rhamphomyia Meigen, 1822, two well-established genus-group names of empidid....

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