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Disteniinae Thomson (Insecta, Coleoptera): a protected name

Disteniinae Thomson (Insecta, Coleoptera): um nome válido

Abstracts

The name "Cométites" Blanchard, 1845 (= Cometinae) is considered nomen oblitum, and "Distenitae" Thomson, 1861 (=Disteniinae), nomen protectum, under the provisions of the Article 23.9 of the ICZN. Disteniinae is hereafter used as a valid family-group name.

Cerambycidae; Cométites; nomenclature; nomen oblitum; nomen protectum


O nome Cométites Blanchard, 1845 (=Cometinae) é considerado nomen oblitum, e "Distenitae" Thomson, 1861 (=Disteniinae), nomen protectum, conforme o Artigo 23.9 do ICZN. Disteniinae é doravante utilizado como um nome válido do grupo-família.

Cerambycidae; Cometites; nomenclatura; nomen oblitum; nomen protectum


SYSTEMATICS, MORPHOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Disteniinae Thomson (Insecta, Coleoptera): a protected name

Disteniinae Thomson (Insecta, Coleoptera): um nome válido

Miguel A. MonnéI, II; Antonio Santos-SilvaIII

IMuseu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. monne@uol.com.br

IIBolsista do CNPq

IIIMuseu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Nazaré, 481, 04299-970 São Paulo-SP, Brazil. toncriss@uol.com.br

ABSTRACT

The name "Cométites" Blanchard, 1845 (= Cometinae) is considered nomen oblitum, and "Distenitae" Thomson, 1861 (=Disteniinae), nomen protectum, under the provisions of the Article 23.9 of the ICZN. Disteniinae is hereafter used as a valid family-group name.

Keywords: Cerambycidae; Cométites; nomenclature; nomen oblitum; nomen protectum.

RESUMO

O nome Cométites Blanchard, 1845 (=Cometinae) é considerado nomen oblitum, e "Distenitae" Thomson, 1861 (=Disteniinae), nomen protectum, conforme o Artigo 23.9 do ICZN. Disteniinae é doravante utilizado como um nome válido do grupo-família.

Palavras-chave: Cerambycidae; Cometites; nomenclatura; nomen oblitum; nomen protectum.

Blanchard (1845: 163) used the name "Cométites" for a group of genera within the family "Lepturides" in which included: Distenia Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825, Phelocalocera Blanchard, 1845, and Cometes Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825. Except for Heteropalpus Buquet, 1843 (genus not mentioned in Blanchard's work), the "Cométites" included all genera known at that time and that currently belong to Disteniinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). At the present time all these old family-group names received the appropiate suffixes, e. g. "Lepturides" Latreille, 1804 = subfamily Lepturinae, and the tribes of Blanchard (l. cit.) "Eburites" = Eburiini, "Callichromites" = Callichromatini, "Xystrocérites" = Xystrocerini.

Thomson (1861: 181) named "Distenitae" for his fifth group ("Cerambycitae Verae"), that included the genera Distenia, Cometes and Noemia Pascoe, 1856. The genus Heteropalpus was mentioned as probably belonging to the group. Cyrtonops White, 1853 was not included in Thomson's work and Dynamostes Pascoe, 1857, mentioned at page 379, was not allocated in any group.

The definition of the level within the family-group has been a controversial issue since the century XIX. The following allocations are some examples: Disteniini (tribe of Cerambycinae, Cerambycidae) according to LeConte (1873: 323), LeConte & Horn (1883: 307), Plavilstshikov (1931:3), Saalas (1936: 51) and Blackwelder (1946: 557); Disteniinae subfamily of Cerambycidae, according to Knull (1946: 150), Kojima & Hayashi (1969: 6), Crowson (1955: 141), Quentin & Villiers (1980: 32) and Lawrence & Newton (1995: 787); Disteniidae family of Coleoptera, according to Mann & Crowson (1981: 738), Monné & Giesbert (1994: 301), Martins & Galileo (1994: 77), and Makihara et al. (2002: 190).

Santos-Silva & Hovore (2007) considered Disteniinae as nomen protectum, and "Cométites" as nomen oblitum. However, the authors did not base the proposition in accordance with the Article 23.9 of the Code (ICZN 1999).

Although the name "Distenitae" is a junior synonym, the name "Cométites" was not used after 1869 (formally), having been mentioned a single time by Lacordaire (1869: 231) in a note. Then, the condition demanded concerning the lack of usage of a senior synonym after 1899 by Article 23.9.1.1 of the Code (ICZN op.cit.) is met.

To satisfy the requirements of the Article 23.9.1.2 of the Code (ICZN op.cit.), we present th following published works:

Conclusions. "Distenitae" Thomson, 1860 (=Disteniinae) is considered nomen protectum, and hereafter used as valid family-group name. "Cométites" Blanchard, 1845 (= Cometinae) on the other hand is nomen oblitum, consequently an invalid name.

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    07 July 2008
  • Date of issue
    2008

History

  • Received
    10 Sept 2007
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