@article {362, title = {Case 3237: The published Case Leucopelaea albescens Bates, 1891 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed\ validation of the lectotype designation}, journal = {Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature}, volume = {59}, number = {2}, year = {2002}, month = {6}, type = {Case}, chapter = {97}, abstract = {

The purpose of this application is to validate the lectotype designation of\ Leucopelaea albescens Bates, 1891 under Article 86.1.2 of the Code. The nominal\ species has very recently been considered a junior synonym of Platycoelia lutescens\ Blanchard, 1851, the name for a scarab beetle (family Scarabaeidae) from the Andes\ in Ecuador, Peru and southern Colombia. The lectotype designation was made under\ the provisions of the third (1985) edition of the Code in a paper that was accepted for\ publication in November 1999. However, the paper was not published until May\ 2000, after the fourth (1999) edition of the Code had come into operation. The\ lectotype designation was made without an express statement of its taxonomic\ purpose and is invalid under Article 74.7.3 of the fourth edition of the Code.

}, keywords = {Nomenclature, taxonomy, Coleoptera, scarabaeidae: Leucopelaea, Leucopelaea albescens, Platycoelia lutescens, scarab beetle, Andes Mountains, South America}, author = {Smith, Andrew} }