NOMEN: Planipennes Latreille 1817 [P.A. Latreille. Les crustacés, les arachnides, les insectes. In: G. Cuvier. Le règne animal. – Paris, Deterville, 1817, T.3: 1-653]
OGINAL SPELLING (Latreille 1817): Planipennes (in Latin or French)
SUBSEQUENT SPELLING (Latreille 1825): Planipennes (in Latin) and Planipennes (in French)
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Latreille 1817): Mecoptera (= Bittacus + Panorpa + Boreus) + Neuropteroidea (= Nemoptera + Myrmeleon + Ascalaphus + Hemerobius + Semblis + Raphidia) + Isoptera (= Termes) + Copeognatha (= Psocus) + Plecoptera (= Perla)
SENIOR
IRCUMSCRIPTIONAL
SYNONYMS:
= Tectipennes Cuvier 1805
= Stegoptera Dumeril
1805
= Synistatea Rafinesque 1815
JUNIOR IRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:
= Nemacera Billberg 1820
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC
FORMAT: Myrmeleon/f=Hemerobius/g
(incl. Raphidia, Chauliodes, Panorpa, Psocus, Perla,
Termes)
TYPIFIED
NAMES IN USE:
MODERN STATUS: junior synonym of Tectipennes and Stegoptera, belongs to a non-accepted, paraphyletic taxon.
COMMENT. The name Planipennes was wrongly regarded as a French spelling of the name Planipennia. Some authors wrongly used the names Planipennes and Planipennia for Birostrata.
Kluge
2010 BioNomina
Dual-Nom
:
The name Planipennes Latreille 1817 is sometimes misinterpreted as French and therefore often spelled ‘Planipennia’; however, Latreille (1825) spells ‘Planipennes’ in both Latin and French elsewhere. Originally (Latreille 1817) the family Planipennes consisted of genera (or subgenera in Cuvier’s sense) Nemoptera, Bittacus, Panorpa, Boreus, Myrmeleon, Ascalaphus, Hemerobius, Osmylus, “Semblis” (i.e. Sialis), Raphidia, Termes, Psocus and Perla, with combined circumscription of Mecaptera + Birostrata + Meganeuroptera + Rhaphidioptera + Isoptera + Copeognatha + Plecoptera. Thus, Planipennes is a junior circumscriptional synonym of Stegoptera Dumeril 1805.
Burmeister (1835–1839) was the first to use the spelling ‘Planipennia’. His tribe Planipennia Burmeister 1839 consisted of the families “Sialidae” (should be Corydalidae), Panorpina, Rhaphidiodea, Hemerobiidae, and Myrmeleontidae, with combined circumscription of Meganeuroptera + Mecaptera + Rhaphidioptera + Birostrata. Some modern authors use the name “Planipennia” for Birostrata; this usage goes back to ‘Brehms Tierleben’ (Heymons 1915) and is inconsistent with circumscriptional principles.