Abstract
group name Vermileonidae Williston, 1886 through application of Article 23.9 of the most recent edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), which provides for reversal of priority. This is necessary because of the existence of an older family name Lampromyiidae, which has never been used since its original publication by Bigot (1857). The eminent French naturalist R-A. F. de Reaumur (1753) proposed that certain fly larvae, discovered by contemporaries to make pits in which to trap prey in the manner of antlions, should be called ‘worm lions.’ Linnaeus (1758) subsequently latinized ‘worm lion’ as ‘vermileo’ and gave this name to the species in France, classified in his broadly conceived genus Musca. As related below, it was adopted by Macquart (1834) as the generic name Vermileo, and in turn it became the basis of the family name Vermileonidae. HISTORICAL REVIEW
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