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Opinion 2448: Stenoderinae Pascoe, 1867 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae): emended to Stenoderusinae to remove homonymy with Stenoderini Selander, 1991 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Meloidae)

ICZN, “Opinion 2448: Stenoderinae Pascoe, 1867 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae): emended to Stenoderusinae to remove homonymy with Stenoderini Selander, 1991 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Meloidae)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 77, pp. , 2020.

Under the plenary power, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has emended the spelling of the family-group name Stenoderinae Pascoe, 1867 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) to remove homonymy with Stenoderini Selander, 1991 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Meloidae). The stem of the generic name  Stenoderus Dejean, 1821 has been emended to  Stenoderus- to give the family-group name Stenoderusinae while the....

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Case 3657: Stenoderini Selander, 1991 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed emendation of spelling to Stenoderaini to remove homonymy with Stenoderini Pascoe, 1867 (Insecta, Coleoptera); and Stenoderini Pascoe, 1867: proposed precedence over Syllitini Thomson, 1864

Yves Bousquet, Patrice Bouchard, Marco A. Bologna, “Case 3657: Stenoderini Selander, 1991 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed emendation of spelling to Stenoderaini to remove homonymy with Stenoderini Pascoe, 1867 (Insecta, Coleoptera); and Stenoderini Pascoe, 1867: proposed precedence over Syllitini Thomson, 1864”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. , 2014.

The purposes of this application, under Articles 23.9.3 and 55.3 of the Code, are to conserve the usage of the family-group name Stenoderini Pascoe, 1867 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) by giving it precedence over the senior but unused name Syllitini Thomson, 1864, and to emend the family-group name Stenoderini Selander, 1991 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Meloidae), a junior homonym of Stenoderini Pascoe, 1867, to Stenoderaini,....

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Case 3748: Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bothriembryontidae): proposed conservation of the name by designation of Helix melo Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 as the type species of Liparus Albers, 1850

Corey S. Whisson, Lisa A. Kirkendale, Abraham S. H. Breure, “Case 3748: Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bothriembryontidae): proposed conservation of the name by designation of Helix melo Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 as the type species of Liparus Albers, 1850”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. , 2018.

The purpose of this application, under Article 67.2 of the Code, is to conserve the current usage of the generic name Bothriembryon Pilsbry, 1894, a well-established genus of land snail endemic to the southern half of Australia and whose name has been used consistently for over a....

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Case 3754: Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828 and Circus approximans Peale, 1848 (Aves, Accipitriformes): conservation of usage by designation of a neotype for Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828, and suppression of Circus juxta, Peale, 1848

Stephen J.S. Debus, Ian A.W. McAllan, Richard Schodde, “Case 3754: Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828 and Circus approximans Peale, 1848 (Aves, Accipitriformes): conservation of usage by designation of a neotype for Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828, and suppression of Circus juxta, Peale, 1848”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. , 2018.

This application has two purposes. The first is to conserve, by neotypification under Articles 75.6 and 81.1 of the Code, usage of the species group name  assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828, universally employed for the Australo-Wallacean spotted harrier in the genus  Circus  Lacépède, 1799 from the end of....

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