scholarly journals On the type species of the genus Dendarus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5048 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-580
Author(s):  
MARCIN JAN KAMIŃSKI ◽  
PATRICE BOUCHARD ◽  
PIERO LEO ◽  
DARIUSZ IWAN
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
The Status ◽  
Locus Typicus ◽  
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae

Based on type specimen investigation, the status of Helops tristis Rossi, 1790 as the type species of the genus Dendarus Dejean, 1821 is confirmed. Lectotypes are designated for Helops tristis and Pandarus coarcticollis Mulsant, 1854 – both are classified in Dendarus. Pandarus libanicus Desbrochers des Loges, 1881 is recognised as a junior synonym of Dendarus calcaratus Baudi di Selve, 1881. Both taxa share the same locus typicus (Mount Lebanon in Lebanon) and are morphologically distinct from the Italian Dendarus lugens (Mulsant & Rey, 1854). Finally, D. lugens is considered as a synonym of D. (Dendarus) coarcticollis.  

Concerning Tomotaenia and Paraplanes, with the Description of a New Dignathodontid Centipede from Missouri (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Dignathodontidae)

1954 ◽  
Vol 86 (9) ◽  
pp. 416-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Crabill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Reliable Information

Tomotaenia was proposed in 1895 by O. F. Cook (3, p. 866) for the reception of a number of Nearctic species; Strigamia parviceps Wood, 1862 (6, p. 49) was cited as the genotype. In 1953 (4, p. 172) I considered Tomotaenia a junior synonym of Strigamia chiefly because reliable information on the questionable type species, parviceps, was neither to be gained from a study of the unavailable type specimen nor from a perusal of the literature and because of the fact that the original description of parviceps in some ways suggests the typical Strigamia habitus. In addition, Attems and others have placed parviceps in Scolioplanes [=Strigamia]. However, in a paper recenrlv published Chamberlin (2) shows that dignathodontid [linotaeniid of Chamberlin] centipedes agreeing in many particulars with Wood's descriptions of parviceps and especially epileptica (loc. cit) inhabit the northwestern United States in some abundance. Perhaps the most striking characteristics of these specimens are their possession of undivided ultimate pedal pretergites, broad ultimate pedal sternites, and coxopleural pores restricted to an area immediately bordering the afore-mentioned sternites. These features, then, might be taken as justifiable bases for separating forms congeneric with epileptica from those properly referable to Strigamia.

Taxonomy of 'Euconnus complex'. Part XV. Disentangling the Euconnus-Sciacharis knot (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4344 (3) ◽  
pp. 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI ◽  
ALFRED F. NEWTON
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Complex Part ◽  
Taxonomic History ◽  
The Status ◽  
Respective Type

Many species currently placed in Sciacharis Broun were once included in Euconnus Thomson, and their taxonomic history is complicated due to diffuse and overlapping diagnoses of both genera applied by previous authors, numerous virtually unjustified transfers of species between them, and hundreds of species not assigned to any subgenus. Based on comparative morphological studies of respective type species, we clarify the status of Allomaoria Franz, Austroconophron Franz, Magellanoconnus Franz, Neuraphoconnus Franz and Valdivioconnus Franz. All of them, except for Neuraphoconnus, were originally described as subgenera of Euconnus, later transferred to Sciacharis. Austroconophron is removed from synonymy with Sciacharis s. str. and resurrected as subgenus of Euconnus (resulting in Euconnus (Austroconophron Franz, status rest.); Allomaoria is retained as a junior synonym of Sciacharis s. str.; Magellanoconnus is removed from Sciacharis and restituted as genus (resulting in Magellanoconnus Franz, status rest.); Anthicimimus Franz, previously removed from subgenus of Sciacharis and elevated to genus rank, is reduced to subgenus of Magellanoconnus (resulting in Magellanoconnus (Anthicimimus stat. rev.); Neuraphoconnus is removed from synonymy with Magellanoconnus and resurrected as genus (resulting in Neuraphoconnus Franz, status rest.); and Valdivioconnus is transferred from subgenus of Sciacharis to subgenus of Microscydmus Saulcy & Croissandeau (resulting in Microscydmus (Valdivioconnus Franz, status rev.). The only Australian species of Magellanoconnus is transferred to Kangarooconnus Jałoszyński, gen. n. (resulting in Kangarooconnus carinifrons (Franz), comb. n.). A complete checklist of 302 species and subspecies previously or currently placed in Sciacharis (including 102 restituted and 50 new combinations) is given. Three replacement names are proposed for secondary homonyms resulted from new combinations: Euconnus (Austroconophron) caledonensides Newton, nom. n. (for Euconnus caledonensis Franz, 1986, not Euconnus caledonensis Franz, 1979); Magellanoconnus (s. str.) castrianus Jałoszyński & Newton, nom. n. (for Magellanoconnus castrii (Franz, 1967: 636), not Magellanoconnus castrii (Franz, 1967: 614)); and Sciacharis (Sciacharis) bryantides Newton, nom. n. (for Euconnus bryanti Franz, 1975, not Euconnus bryanti Lhoste, 1939). Lectotypes are designated (des. Jałoszyński) for Euconnus tindoui Franz, 1971, Phagonophana lanosa Broun, 1885, and Neuraphoconnus caledonicus Franz, 1971. 

The taxonomic identity of some enigmatic darkling beetle genera: Archinamaqua Schawaller, 2012 and Menederopsis Koch, 1954 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Namaqualand, South Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4543 (2) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
MARCIN J. KAMIŃSKI ◽  
WOLFGANG SCHAWALLER
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Darkling Beetle ◽  
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae

Based on the newly established synonymy of the type species (i.e., Menederopsis constrictus Koch, 1954 = Archinamaqua lyleae Schawaller, 2012 syn. nov.) the genus-group name Archinamaqua Schawaller, 2012 (Pimeliinae: Tentyriini) is interpreted as a junior synonym of Menederopsis Koch, 1954 (Tenebrioninae: Eurynotina). This newly interpreted taxon has a restricted distributional area on sand dunes in Namaqualand, western South Africa. 

Redescription of the ‘older Adelopsis’ species (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Ptomaphagini) based on the analysis of type specimens

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4696 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-62
Author(s):  
PEDRO GNASPINI ◽  
STEWART B. PECK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
The Status ◽  
Species Groups

As preparation for a revision of the Neotropical genera Adelopsis Portevin, 1907, Paulipalpina Gnaspini and Peck, 1996, and Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini, 1996, we review and redescribe the earlier named species and code characters of their genitalia. These characters are then used to redefine species groups. We review the following 22 “older” species: Adelopsis ascutellaris (Murray, 1856) (male lectotype here designated); Adelopsis aspera Jeannel, 1936; Adelopsis asperoides Szymczakowski, 1963; Adelopsis azzalii Szymczakowski, 1975 (here raised to specific status—previously as Adelopsis brunnea azzalii); Adelopsis bellator Szymczakowski, 1968; Adelopsis benardi (Portevin, 1923); Adelopsis brasiliensis Jeannel, 1936; Adelopsis brevicollis Szymczakowski, 1975 (here raised to specific status—previously as Adelopsis brunnea brevicollis); Adelopsis bruchi (Pic, 1926) (male lectotype here designated); Adelopsis darwini Jeannel, 1936; Adelopsis grouvellei Jeannel, 1936; Adelopsis heterocera Portevin, 1907 (the type species of Adelopsis, here considered a junior synonym of Adelopsis ruficollis (Portevin, 1903)); Adelopsis insolita Szymczakowski, 1961; Adelopsis luculenta Szymczakowski, 1963; Adelopsis orcina Szymczakowski, 1975 (here raised to specific status—previously as Adelopsis brunnea orcina); Adelopsis ovalis Jeannel, 1936; Adelopsis pteromoria Szymczakowski, 1975 (here raised to specific status—previously as Adelopsis brunnea pteromoria); Adelopsis ruficollis (Portevin, 1903) (male lectotype here designated) (here considered a senior synonym of Adelopsis heterocera Portevin, 1907); Adelopsis triangulifer Szymczakowski, 1961; Parapaulipalpina filicornis (Jeannel, 1936); Paulipalpina dispar (Portevin, 1903) (male lectotype here designated); and Paulipalpina simoni (Portevin, 1903). The status of Adelopsis brunnea Jeannel, 1936 is discussed, and is restricted to a single, nominal subspecies. Specific status is restablished for Adelopsis linaresi Szymczakowski, 1969 (previously as Adelopsis brunnea linaresi). The status of Paulipalpina claudicans (Szymczakowski, 1980) is discussed. To correct published misidentifications in museum collections, we also describe the following nine new species: Adelopsis claudina sp. n., Adelopsis mrazi sp. n., Adelopsis szymczakowskii sp. n., Adelopsis waclawi sp. n., and Paulipalpina jeanneli sp. n. (all from Brazil), Paulipalpina consuelo sp. n. from Peru, Adelopsis portevini sp. n. and Paulipalpina aragua sp. n. from Venezuela, and Paulipalpina coatepec sp. n. from Mexico. Iutururuca Gnaspini, 1993, described as a subgenus of Adelopsis, is here considered a junior synonym of Adelopsis Portevin, 1907, which is defined as having no subgenera. 

scholarly journals A study of the scale insect genera Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Putoidae) and Ceroputo Šulc (Pseudococcidae) with a comparison to Phenacoccus Cockerell (Pseudococcidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2802 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. WILLIAMS ◽  
P. J. GULLAN ◽  
D. R. MILLER ◽  
D. MATILE-FERRERO5 ◽  
SARAH I. HAN
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Scale Insect ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
World Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of

For almost a century, the scale insect genus Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) was considered to belong to the family Pseudococcidae (the mealybugs), but recent consensus accords Puto its own family, the Putoidae. This paper reviews the taxonomic history of Puto and family Putoidae, compares the morphology of Puto to that of Ceroputo Šulc and Phenacoccus Cockerell, and reassesses the status of all species that have been placed in Puto to determine whether they belong to the Putoidae or to the Pseudococcidae. For 49 of 57 species that have been placed in Puto, as listed in the online database ScaleNet, we score and tabulate features that are diagnostic for Putoidae and then list all species in their correct family placement. For comparison, we include a few species of Pseudococcidae, namely five species of Phenacoccus, including the type species Phenacoccus aceris (Signoret), and the type species of Ceroputo, C. pilosellae Šulc. We provide revised synonymy lists for Puto and Ceroputo, a brief diagnosis of each genus, synonymy lists and notes for several species for which we suggest recombinations or additional synonyms, or for which we have additional data on morphology. We provide a brief diagnosis of Phenacoccus for comparison with Ceroputo and Puto. As a result of our study, we recognise 47 extant and two fossil species of Puto, and six species of Ceroputo. The New World species Puto mimicus McKenzie and Puto nulliporus McKenzie are transferred to the mealybug genus Ceroputo as Ceroputo mimicus (McKenzie) comb. nov. and Ceroputo nulliporus (McKenzie) comb. nov., respectively, and the Old World species Puto pini Danzig and Puto vaccinii Danzig are recognised as Ceroputo pini (Danzig) comb. rev. and Ceroputo vaccinii (Danzig) comb. rev., respectively, in agreement with Tang (1992). The Old World species Puto graminis Danzig is transferred to Ceroputo as Ceroputo graminis (Danzig) comb. nov. Based only on a study of the literature, the following two names are treated here as junior subjective synonyms of Ceroputo pilosellae: Phenacoccus asteri Takahashi syn. nov. and Puto jarudensis Tang syn. nov. We agree with Tang (1992) that Leococcus erigeroneus Kanda should be treated as a junior subjective synonym of C. pilosellae and thus the genus name Leococcus Kanda, erected for L. erigeroneus and formerly treated as a junior synonym of Puto, is a junior synonym of Ceroputo.

Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2948 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
RÜDIGER BIELER ◽  
RICHARD E. PETIT
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Family Group ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Marine Gastropod ◽  
History Of

The taxonomy of the uncoiling “worm-snails” belonging to the marine gastropod families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae and Turritellidae is notoriously confused and their nominal species frequently mixed (in the literature as well as in type specimen collections) with members of superficially similar tube-building polychaete worms or members of unrelated molluscan groups. A long history of introducing and using infrasubspecific names and the rampant employment of homonymous names for unrelated taxa had contributed to a system that became unworkable. The current catalogue researches nearly 1,500 names that have been cited in conjunction with Recent and fossil taxa worm-snail taxonomy (six names above family-group level, 18 family-group names, 195 genus-group names, 1,278 species-group names). Each name’s validity and availability (in the sense of the I.C.Z.N. Code) was investigated and current placement within or outside the mentioned worm-snail families is suggested. 560 species-group names are interpreted as available for members of the worm-snail groups here under discussion. Of these, approximately 280 species-group names are available for extant taxa. Various formal First-Reviser actions are taken to resolve priority issues. The type species for Tulaxoda Blainville, 1828 is herein designated to be Serpulorbis polyphragma Sasso, 1827, making Tulaxoda an objective junior synonym of Thylacodes Guettard, 1770. Magilus Montfort, 1810 is declared a nomen protectum over Campulotus Guettard, 1770, a nomen oblitum. Recurring nomenclatural issues and those too complex to treat within the regular catalogue entries are discussed in 22 taxa notes. The catalogue is fully referenced in 766 literature titles and eight associated literature notes. 

A new species of Scolecoseps (Reptilia: Scincidae) from southeastern Tanzania

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Broadley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
The Status ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA specimen of Scolecoseps from Litipo Forest in southeastern Tanzania is compared with previously recorded material and described as a new species, S. litipoensis, which shows affinities with the forest-dwelling genus Melanoseps. The type species of the genus, S. boulengeri, is considered to be a derived form which has moved into a savanna habitat. The status of S. acontias remains uncertain due to the inadequate description and destruction of the type specimen.

A taxonomic review of the genus Amicta Heylaerts, 1881 in North Africa, Near and Middle East (Lepidoptera, Psychidae, Oiketicinae, Acanthopsychini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5071 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-368
Author(s):  
WILFRIED R. ARNSCHEID ◽  
HOSSEIN RAJAEI ◽  
THOMAS SOBCZYK
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Taxonomic Review ◽  
Molecular Studies ◽  
The Status

The genus Amicta Heylaerts, 1881 is revised on the basis of morphological and molecular studies. It is shown that, in addition to the already known taxa, there are three others that had previously remained unknown and are therefore described here as Amicta lutensis sp. nov., Amicta bouhedmaensis sp. nov. and Amicta chambiana sp. nov. Furthermore, the status of three more taxa is discussed and all three are raised to species rank: Amicta nigrescens Staudinger, 1900 stat. rev., Amicta acutella Krüger, 1931 stat. rev. and Amicta arabica (Wiltshire, 1949) stat. rev. It has also been shown that the genus Hyalopteronia Solyanikov, 2002 syn. nov. is synonymous with Amicta Heylaerts, 1881. The type species Hyalopteronia davarica Solyanikov, 2002 is recombined and placed with Amicta: Amicta davarica (Solyanikov, 2002) comb. nov., and Amicta syrtana Krüger, 1939 syn. nov. regarded as junior synonym of A. murina Krüger 1939. The results of this study give an overview of the systematics and distribution of the genus Amicta (with the exception of the species from the Canary Islands).  

scholarly journals The lectotype of <i>Spiroplecta rosula</i> Ehrenberg, 1854 – the type species of <i>Bolivinopsis</i> Yakovlev, 1891 (Foraminifera)

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
M. A. Kaminski ◽  
D. B. Lazarus
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Geological Museum ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
The Status ◽  
Single Genus ◽  
Microscope Slides

Abstract. INTRODUCTIONThe Ehrenberg collection of microfossils in the Natural History Museum, Berlin contains the original reference material for a single genus of agglutinated foraminifera – Bolivinopsis Yakovlev, 1891. Among the foraminiferal specimens preserved in the collection, a single specimen was selected and illustrated by Ehrenberg (1854) as Spiroplecta rosula. This species was subsequently designated by Kisselman (1964) as the senior synonym of Bolivinopsis capitata Yakovlev, 1891, making it the type species of Bolivinopsis by virtue of synonymy. According to Kisselman (1964), the type specimens of B. capitata were deposited in the Central Geological Museum in St Petersburg, and were lost during the war. Indeed, the name B. capitata is not used in the Soviet literature, and such forms are consistently attributed to B. rosula. As part of the work undertaken for a Catalogue of Agglutinated Foraminiferal Genera, we undertook a search of the Ehrenberg Collection in order to establish the status of the type specimen(s) of Spiroplecta rosula.MATERIAL AND METHODSThe Ehrenberg collection of microfossils at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin consists of innumerable specimens embedded in Canada Balsam mounted on small mica disks that served as microscope slides. Small paper rings pressed onto the surface of the disks were used by Ehrenberg to mark specimens of importance, such as illustrated in Ehrenberg’s (1854) book Mikrogeologie. A catalogue of the collection was compiled originally by Ehrenberg’s daughter Clara and has been supplemented by new collection databases. We used these sources to locate and examine all the micas from the . . .

Revision of the recent Indo - West Pacific comatulid genus Comaster Agassiz. Part 1. The type species of Comaster and Phanogenia Lovén (Echinodermata : Crinoidea : Comasteridae)

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles G. Messing
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
The Other ◽  
Taxonomic Group ◽  
West Pacific

The Indo–Pacific reef-dwelling comatulid crinoid Comaster multifidus (MÜller, 1841) is the type species of the genus Comaster Agassiz, 1836. Re-examination of the type specimen of C. multifidus shows that it does not conform to the concept of the species as currently applied and does not belong in the genus as currently diagnosed. Instead, it falls within ComanthinaA. H. Clark, 1909, and is identical toComanthina variabilis Bell, 1882.Comanthina thus becomes a junior synonym of Comaster because Actinometra nobilis Carpenter, 1884, the type species of Comanthina, is clearly congeneric with A. variabilis. Species currently assigned to Comanthina are herein transferred to Comaster. The other species currently included in Comaster represent a distinct taxonomic group and are herein transferred to the next most senior available genus, Phanogenia Lovén, 1866. The holotypes of the type species of Comaster and Phanogenia are redescribed in detail.

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