Orthoceratium lacustre

Orthoceratium lacustre neotype ♂

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Empidoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Asilomorpha Superfamilia: Empidoidea

Familia: Dolichopodidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophorinae
Genus: Orthoceratium
Species: Orthoceratium lacustre

Name

Orthoceratium lacustre (Scopoli, 1763)

Neotype: ZMHB. ITALY: ♂, [brownish rectangular] “Liancalus/ lacustris Scp”/ “Görz.” [= Gorizia, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia region]; “Zool. Mus.”/ “Berlin”; “Orthoceratium lacustre”/ “(Scopoli, 1763)”/ “det. Marc Pollet, 2017”; [red rectangular] “NEOTYPE” / “des. Marc Pollet, 2018” (2017 on initial label) [ZMHB] (IT-04). (designated by Pollet & Stark, 2018)

Type locality: Carniola (= present-day Slovenia).

Synonymy

• Musca lacustris Scopoli, 1763: 343
• Orthoceratium lacustre: Schrank, 1803: 152
• Hydrophorus lacustris: Haliday in Walker, 1851: 182
• Liancalus lacustris: Loew, 1857: 22
• Alloeoneurus lacustris: Mik, 1878: 8

References

Primary references

• Loew, H. 1857. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Fünfter Beitrag. Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz 1857: 1–56. BHL. Reference page. 
• Mik, J. 1878. Dipterologische Untersuchungen. Jahresberichte des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Akademische Gymnasium, Wien, 1877/1878, 1–24. Google Books .
• Pollet, M. & Stark, A. 2018. The quest for the identity of Orthoceratium lacustre (Scopoli, 1763) reveals centuries of misidentifications (Diptera, Dolichopodidae). ZooKeys 782: 49–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.782.26329 Reference page. 
• Schrank, F. von P. 1803. Fauna Boica. Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere Vol. 3(1): i–viii + 1–272. BHL Reference page. 
• Scopoli, J.A. 1763. Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates: methodo Linnaeana. pp. 1–35, 1–420. Trattner, Vindobonae [Vienna]. BHL Reference page. 
• Walker, F. 1851. Insecta Britannica. Diptera. Vol. I. Reeve & Benham, London. 378 pp., 10 pls. BHL.