43. Petaurista [Petaurista] Meigen, 1800: 15. CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; work suppressed for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of I.C.Z.N. (1963: 339 [Opinion 678]); treated under Trichocera Meigen, 1803 [teste Dahl (1992: 33)]. [Petaurista] Osten Sacken, 1882: 193. CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; criteria to make the name available not fulfilled in this work. REMARKS: Osten Sacken (1882) included this name only in a list of Meigen 1800 names without stating their availability. [Petaurista] Bezzi, 1907a: 56. CURRENT STATUS: Unavailable name; criteria to make the name available not fulfilled in this work. REMARKS: Bezzi (1907a) included this name only in a list of Meigen 1800 names without stating their availability. Petaurista Meigen in Hendel, 1908. 47. ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Tipula hiemalis De Geer, 1776. TYPE SPECIES: Tipula hiemalis De Geer, 1776, by monotypy. CURRENT STATUS: Preoccupied by Petaurista Link, 1795; Petaurista Desmarest, 1820; junior synonym of Trichocera Meigen, 1803. New Synonymy. FAMILY: TRICHOCERIDAE. REMARKS: Petaurista was originally proposed by Meigen (1800: 15) without included species and later made unavailable by the suppression of the entire work for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of the I.C.Z.N. (1963: 339 [Opinion 678]). Hendel (1908: 47) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Petaurista as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. Hendel (1908) included one species Tipula hiemalis De Geer, 1776, which is the type species by monotypy. Tipula hiemalis De Geer, 1776 is currently treated in Trichocera Meigen, 1803 [teste Dahl (1992: 33)], which makes Petaurista Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Trichocera Meigen, 1803, n. syn.

Published as part of Evenhuis, Neal L. & Pape, Thomas, 2017, Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen's 1800 pamphlet, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4275 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/804234