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Case 3770: Musca jejuna Fabricius, 1787 (currently Bengalia jejuna) and Musca torosa Wiedemann, 1819 (currently Bengalia torosa) (Insecta, Diptera, Calliphoridae): proposed conservation of prevailing usage of names by setting aside existing name-bearing types (syntypes) of both nominal species and replacing them with male neotypes

Status of Case:Resolved (Opinion Issued)
Date Published:12/2018
Authors: Rognes, K.
Volume and Issue:75/
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Keywords: Nomenclature, taxonomy, Insecta, Diptera, Calliphoridae, Musca, Bengalia, Musca jejuna, Musca torosa, Bengalia jejuna, Bengalia torosa, blowfly, Oriental Region
Taxonomic Group(s): Diptera, Insecta
Abstract:

The purpose of the present application, under Articles 75.5 and 75.6 of the Code, is to conserve the names Bengalia jejuna (Fabricius, 1787) and Bengalia torosa (Wiedemann, 1819) in their accustomed usage for two Oriental blowflies by setting aside the three female syntypes of Musca jejuna Fabricius, 1787 and the male and female syntypes of Musca torosa Wiedemann, 1819, which are either not conforming to the prevailing usage of the names or unidentifiable, and in each case by replacing them with a male neotype.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a046

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