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Opinion 2463: Ripiphorus Bosc, 1791 and Ripiphoridae Laporte, 1840 (Insecta, Coleoptera): generic and family-group names conserved by designation of a type species for the former

ICZN, “Opinion 2463: Ripiphorus Bosc, 1791 and Ripiphoridae Laporte, 1840 (Insecta, Coleoptera): generic and family-group names conserved by designation of a type species for the former”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 77, pp. , 2020.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved the usage of the generic name Ripiphorus Bosc, 1791, type genus of Ripiphoridae Laporte, 1840, by designating Ripiphorus subdipterus Fabricius, 1792 as its type species.

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Case 3746: Ripiphoridae Laporte, 1840 and Ripiphorus Bosc, 1791 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation of usage by designating Ripiphorus subdipterus Fabricius, 1792 as the type species of Ripiphorus and proposed ruling that Laporte (1840) used the type genus Ripiphorus in the sense defined by the type species Ripiphorus subdipterus

Yves Bousquet, Patrice Bouchard, “Case 3746: Ripiphoridae Laporte, 1840 and Ripiphorus Bosc, 1791 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation of usage by designating Ripiphorus subdipterus Fabricius, 1792 as the type species of Ripiphorus and proposed ruling that Laporte (1840) used the type genus Ripiphorus in the sense defined by the type species Ripiphorus subdipterus”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. , 2018.

The purpose of this application, under Articles 65.2.2 and 81.1 of the Code, is to conserve the current usage of the generic name Ripiphorus Bosc, 1791 and the familygroup name Ripiphoridae Laporte, 1840. The current usage of Ripiphorus is threatened by the discovery that its....

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