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

Knut Rognes

doi:10.21805/bzn.v75.a046

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31 December 2018 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

Knut Rognes

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The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 75(1):224-228 (2018). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a046

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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 jejunaFabricius, 1787 and the male and female syntypes of Musca torosaWiedemann, 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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Knut Rognes "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," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75(1), 224-228, (31 December 2018). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a046

Published: 31 December 2018

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