Name - Xylophagus Meigen 1803

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:119373 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Xylophagus

• Anaxylophagus Malloch 1931

• Xylophagus Meigen

• Pachistomus Rondani 1856

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Case 3717 - XYLOPHAGIDAE Purchon, 1941 (Mollusca: Bivalvia): proposed emendation of the spelling to XYLOPHAGAIDAE to remove homonymy with XYLOPHAGIDAE Fallen, 1810 (Insecta: Diptera).
• Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen's 1800 pamphlet.
• Opinion 2429 (Case 3717) - XYLOPHAGIDAE Purchon, 1941 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): emended to XYLOPHAGAIDAE to remove homonymy with XYLOPHAGIDAE Fallen, 1810 (Insecta, Diptera).
• First Record of the Awl Fly Genus Xylophagus (Diptera: Xylophagidae) from Korea.

Search name in:

Sherborn Index Animalium

• Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger), II 1803: 266. [Index Animalium Entry]

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