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TRIGONALIDAE CRESSON 1887
Trigonalidae Cresson 1887: 183.
Trigonalyidae Krieger 1894: 23.
Cresson (1887) was the first to use
Trigonalys to form a family-rank name (Trigonalidae)
but this was apparently overlooked by others. Bischoff (1938)
attributed the family to Krieger (1894). Many spelling variants
have been proposed (listed in Bischoff 1938 and Weinstein &
Austin 1991) due to the ambiguity of the root of Trigonalys.
Based on Westwood's definition of the genus Nomadina: "genus
novum...Trigonalydi proximum" (Westwood, 1868) the stem of
Trigonalys is Trigonalyd-, which would make Trigonalydidae the
correct spelling (H.D. Cameron, pers. comm.). Since the root is
ambiguous, we have used the first and most commonly used spelling,
Trigonalidae.
This page is maintained by Dave Carmean, and last modified January 1998. Comments or suggestions are welcomed!