Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Authors: | Alonso-Zarazaga, M., Lobo, J., López-Colón, J., Verdú, J. |
Journal: | Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature |
Volume: | 72 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page: | 291 |
Pagination: | 291–296 |
Date Published: | 12/2015 |
Type of Article: | Case |
Keywords: | Coleoptera, geotrupid beetles, Geotrupidae, Insecta, Nomenclature, Palaearctica, Scarabaeoidea, Scarabaeus laevigatus, taxonomy, Thorectes |
Abstract: | The purpose of this application, under Articles 70.3, 74.7 and 81.1 of the Code, is to conserve the current usage of the beetle genus Thorectes Mulsant, 1842 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Geotrupidae) by confirmation of its type species Scarabaeus laevigatus Fabricius, 1798. This action will also stabilise the predominant usage of another genus, Jekelius López-Colón, 1989, for a phylogenetically relatively distant clade of species whose ecological importance in Mediterranean Quercus forests is currently under study. A lectotype is designated for Scarabaeus laevigatus Fabricius, 1798. |
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Case:
Case 3699
Volume/Issue:
72(4)
Taxonomic Group(s):
Coleoptera,
Insecta
Status of Case:
Resolved (Opinion Issued)
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The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has used its plenary power to set aside all previous fixations of type species for the nominal genus Thorectes Mulsant, 1842 prior to the designation of Scarabaeus laevigatus Fabricius, 1798 by López-Colón & Alonso-Zarazaga (2006) which it has accepted as valid.
https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a021
Opinion:
Opinion 2411
Volume/Issue:
75
Taxonomic Group(s):
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