BZN Volume
59, Part 4, 19 December 2002
Comments
Comments
with the following titles were published
on 19 December 2002 in Volume 59,
Part 4 of the Bulletin of Zoological
Nomenclature
Copies
of these Comments can be obtained free
of charge from the Executive Secretary,
The International Commission on Zoological
Nomenclature, c/o The Natural History
Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD,
U.K. (e-mail: iczn@nhm.ac.uk).
Comment
on the proposed precedence of Bolboceras Kirby,
1819 (July) (Insecta, Coleoptera) over Odonteus Samouelle,
1819 (June)
(Case
3097; see BZN
59: 246-248)
Phillip
J. Harpootlian
206 Fredericksburg Drive, Simpsonville,
SC 29681, U.S.A.
I
write in support of Case 3097, but make
the following exceptions to the statement
in para. 3 that the name Odonteus was
not used between its original publication
and its use by Krell in 1990. The name Odonteus Samouelle,
1819 was used at least once in the primary
literature before 1990 with the original
spelling and including the nominal species O.
armiger Scopoli, 1772 (see Jessop,
1986). Since 1990, Baraud (1992) used Odontaeus Samouelle,
with the correct authorship and date,
citing Krell (1990) as the basis for
this action. The use of the name Odontaeus is
also being proposed for an up-coming
volume in the Fauna-Iberica series:
(www.faunaiberica.mncn.csic.es/htmlfauna/faunibe/zoolist/insecta/
coleoptera/geotrupidae.html).
Additional
references
Baraud,
J. 1992. Coléoptères
Scarabaeoidea D’Europe.
856 pp., Faune de France 78, Federation
Française des Sociétés
des Sciences Naturelles.
Jessop, L. 1986. Dung beetles
and chafers, Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea, vol. 5,
part 11. 53 pp. Handbook for the Identification
of British Insects. London.
Comment
on the proposed conservation of usage
of Chrysodema Laporte
& Gory, 1835 and Iridotaenia Deyrolle,
1864 (Insecta, Coleoptera) by the designation
of C. sonnerati Laporte &
Gory, 1835 as the type species of Chrysodema
(Case
3193; see BZN
59: 185-187)
S. Bily
Department of Entomology, National
Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha
4, Czech Republic
The
present situation where the two nominal
genera Chrysodema Laporte & Gory,
1835 and Iridotaenia Deyrolle,
1864 both have the same type species, C.
sumptuosa Laporte & Gory, 1835,
is clearly contrary to the Code and complicates
my research. Dr Bellamy's proposal to
resolve the problem of synonymy by the
designation of C. sonnerati Laporte & Gory,
1835 as the type species of Chrysodema has
my full support.
Comment
on the proposed conservation of 65
specific names in the family STAPHYLINIDAE
Latreille, 1804 (Insecta, Coleoptera)
(Case
3207; see BZN
59: 99-113)
Andrew
Wakeham-Dawson (Executive Secretary)
LC.ZN., c/o The Natural History Museum, Cromwell
Road, London SW7 SBD, U.K. (e-mail: iczn@nhm.ac.uk)
A
few small errors have found their way
into this application. The Key to Table
1 should include the following:
# -
the senior homonyms marked with this
symbol have not been used as valid names
since at least 1899.
j.s.
- means junior synonym.
Sentence
(2)(a) of para. 4 should read: `(a) the valid specific
names in column 4 of Table 1 .
. .'.
Sentence (2)(b) of para. 4 should read: `(b) the specific names in column
2 of Table 1 . . .'.
The following sentence should be added: `(2)(c) the specific
names in column 2 of Table 2, as originally published in binomina with generic
names in column 5.'
