Desmiostoma Foerster, 1862
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Type data
Type taxon: Opius parvulus
Type locality: Brussels
Type repository: ISNB, Belgium, Brussels, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique
Type notes: type species: Opius parvulus Wesmael, 1835 (monobasic and original designation)
Taxonomic history
Desmiostoma : Foerster, 1862 (original description)
Details
Name: Desmiostoma
Author, year: Foerster, 1862
ICZN Group: genus
Original publication
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Notes
First treated as synonym of Opius by Marshall (1891: Brit. Bracs, part IV), and also as synonym of Opius by Szepligeti (1904) and Gahan (1915). Fischer used the name as a genus in 3 papers published in 1970, but treated it as a synonym of Opius in his 1971 catalog. In his 1972 treatise, he formally recognized it as a genus. Wharton (1988) again treated it as a synonym of Opius after earlier (Wharton 1983) removing most of the species from it. It was subsequently recognized as a separate genus once again (van Achterberg 2005 European fauna website).
Rank and synonymy therefore equivocal.
Record details
Last updator: Matt Yoder
Creator: Matt Yoder
Created on: over 18 years ago
Last updated: 4 months ago
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