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Case 3582: Scaris Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 and Scarides (Scaridae) Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Insecta, Hemiptera): proposed suppression to remove homonymy of the latter with Scaridi (currently Scaridae) Rafinesque, 1810 (Osteichthyes)

Status of Case:Open Cases
Date Published:05/2018
Authors: Nielson, M. W., Viraktamath, C. A., van der Laan, R.
Volume and Issue:75/
Pagination:6–11
Keywords: Nomenclature, taxonomy, Insecta, Hemiptera, GYPONINAE, Docalidia ferruginea, Darma, Gypona, Iassus, Iassus ferrugineus, misidentified type species, parrotfish, leafhoppers
Taxonomic Group(s): Hemiptera, Insecta, Osteichthyes
Abstract:

The purpose of this application, under Articles 55.3.1 and 81 of the Code, is the suppression of the hemipteran insect genus-group name Scaris Le Peletier & Audinet- Serville, 1828 and family-group names based on it to remove the homonymy between the parrotfish family-group name Scaridi (currently Scaridae) Rafinesque, 1810 (type genus Scarus Forsskål, 1775) and the insect family-group name Scarides (Scaridae) Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (type genus Scaris Le Peletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828), and also to conserve the usage of the name Docalidia Nielson, 1979 for a large genus of Neotropical leafhoppers.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a005

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