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Huber and Paul E. Spiegler, that the insects seemed to be associated 
with piles of dead branches of yellow pine ( Pinus australis Michx.) 
on the ground. 
The Taxonomic Status of Boriomyia 
A series of nomenclatorial mistakes combined with several taxono- 
mic errors in evaluating published descriptions have obscured the true 
relationships of this genus within the Hemerobiidae. The name 
Boriomyia appeared for the first time in 1904 when Banks included 
his previously described species PTemerobius fidelis and H. speciosus 
under this generic name. A formal description of Boriomyia as a 
new taxon appeared in 1905 in Banks’ Revision of the Nearctic Hem- 
erobiidae. In this work, six Nearctic species were included in this 
genus in addition to B. fidelis and B. speciosa, one of these, H. dis- 
junctus Banks, being designated as the type species. Subsequently 
additional Nearctic and numerous exotic species were referred to 
Boriomyia by various workers. In 1930 Banks, recognizing that B. 
fidelis and B. speciosa did not form a homogeneous group with the 
remainder of the species placed in Boriomyia, erected a new subgenus, 
Allotomyia, for these two species and subsequently (1935) treated 
this group as a full genus. 
Killington (1937) agreed that the two groups of species recognized 
by Banks should be separated generically, but pointed out that since 
the name Boriomyia had been validated in 1904 when it was used in 
combination with two already-described species, Banks’ 1905 designa- 
tion of H. disjunct us as the type of Boriomyia was in violation of the 
Rules since this species was not included in Boriomyia when this name 
was originally validated. Designating H. fidelis as the type species of 
Boriomyia, Killington proposed the name Kimminsia for the British 
species formerly included in Boriomyia, the remaining non-British 
species of the former Boriomyia (other than B. speciosa) presumably 
being also referable to this genus. A Palaearctic species, H. betulina 
Str0m was selected as the type of Kimminsia. These two genera were 
considered to be separated by venational features which had already 
been noted by Banks. These views were reiterated by Killington in 
1937b. Tjeder (1941) in a critique of Killington’s work and with- 
out specimens of B. fidelis to study felt that the venational distinctions 
which had been drawn between Boriomyia and Kimminsia were not 
sufficient to warrant generic separation. Subsequently in a long series 
of papers ( 1943a, 1943b, 1944, 1945, I95E 1953a, 1953b, 1954, 
1 955 , i960) , he has continued to use the name Boriomyia to cover the 
Kimminsia group of species. 
