Priscoearomyia, Morge, 1963

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Genus Priscoearomyia

Note 25. The genus was erected by Morge (1963a: 93). However, up until this date Priscoearomyia has been regarded as a junior synonym of Protearomyia McAlpine, 1962 and the latter name has been used extensively in the literature. It is now evident that Protearomyia was first proposed in McAlpine’s PhD thesis and as such it does not meet the ICZN criteria for publication of a genus name.

Note 26. Priscoearomyia nigra . According to Morge (1962: 397) the female holotype is in good condition but its capture locality is unknown. However, Kovalev & Morge (1984: 250) gave the type locality as “ Germany?” Females of Palearctic Priscoearomyia are not currently identifiable to species level and, with some five Priscoearomyia species now being recorded from Germany, investigation of the holotype by DNA analysis may well be required to confirm if it is actually conspecific with what we currently consider to be males of P. nigra .