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Case 3767: Papilio phoebus Fabricius, 1793 (currently Parnassius phoebus; Insecta, Lepidoptera): proposed conservation of prevailing usage of the specific name and that of Doritis ariadne Lederer, 1853 (currently Parnassius ariadne) by the designation of a neotype

Vladimir A. Lukhtanov, Jonathan P. Pelham, Adam M. Cotton, John V. Calhoun, “Case 3767: Papilio phoebus Fabricius, 1793 (currently Parnassius phoebus; Insecta, Lepidoptera): proposed conservation of prevailing usage of the specific name and that of Doritis ariadne Lederer, 1853 (currently Parnassius ariadne) by the designation of a neotype”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 76, pp. , 2019.

The purpose of this application under Article 75.6 of the Code is to conserve the specific names of the European ‘Small Apollo’ butterfly Parnassius phoebus (Fabricius, 1793) and the Altai ‘Apollo’ butterfly Parnassius ariadne (Lederer, 1853) in their current usage. Hanus & Theye (2010) discovered....

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Opinion 2477: Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 (Insecta, Coleoptera): name conserved

ICZN, “Opinion 2477: Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 (Insecta, Coleoptera): name conserved”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. 144-146, 2021.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved  current usage of the specific name of Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853, a widespread  species of scarabaeid beetle, by giving it precedence over the specific names of Hybosorus pinguis ....

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Case 3768: Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation by giving it precedence over Hybosorus pinguis Westwood, 1845, Hybosorus roei Westwood, 1845 and Hybosorus carolinus LeConte, 1847

Alberto Ballerio, Frank-Thorsten Krell, Aleš Bezděk, Andrey Frolov, Jean-Bernard Huchet, Denis Keith, José Ignacio López-Colón, Eric Matthews, Federico Ocampo, Antonio Rey, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello, “Case 3768: Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation by giving it precedence over Hybosorus pinguis Westwood, 1845, Hybosorus roei Westwood, 1845 and Hybosorus carolinus LeConte, 1847”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. , 2018.

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the widely used specific name Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae), a globally widespread and common scarab beetle. The name is threatened by the very rarely used senior subjective synonyms Hybosorus....

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Case 3769: Proposed use of the plenary power to declare the pamphlet “Procrustomachia” as an unavailable work

Svatopluk Bílý, M. G. Volkovitsh, Ted C. MacRae, , “Case 3769: Proposed use of the plenary power to declare the pamphlet “Procrustomachia” as an unavailable work”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. 220-223, 2018.

The purpose of this application under Article 8.1.2, Article 8.1.3.1, Article 8.5.3 and Article 9.11 of the Amendment to the Code (ICZN, 2012) is to declare the pamphlet “Procrustomachia” 2016–2018 (Vols. 1–3) as an unavailable work from a nomenclatural viewpoint and all new scientific names and nomenclatural....

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Case 3770: Musca jejuna Fabricius, 1787 (currently Bengalia jejuna) and Musca torosa Wiedemann, 1819 (currently Bengalia torosa) (Insecta, Diptera, Calliphoridae): proposed conservation of prevailing usage of names by setting aside existing name-bearing types (syntypes) of both nominal species and replacing them with male neotypes

Knut Rognes, “Case 3770: Musca jejuna Fabricius, 1787 (currently Bengalia jejuna) and Musca torosa Wiedemann, 1819 (currently Bengalia torosa) (Insecta, Diptera, Calliphoridae): proposed conservation of prevailing usage of names by setting aside existing name-bearing types (syntypes) of both nominal species and replacing them with male neotypes”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. , 2018.

The purpose of the present application, under Articles 75.5 and 75.6 of the Code, is to conserve the names Bengalia jejuna (Fabricius, 1787) and Bengalia torosa (Wiedemann, 1819) in their accustomed usage for two Oriental blowflies by setting aside the three female syntypes of ....

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Opinion 2478: Stylina Lamarck, 1816 (Coelenterata, Scleractinia): current usage conserved by designation of a type
species and corresponding lectotype

ICZN, “Opinion 2478: Stylina Lamarck, 1816 (Coelenterata, Scleractinia): current usage conserved by designation of a type
species and corresponding lectotype”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. , 2021.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved current usage of the generic name Stylina Lamarck, 1816 by designating a type species, Stylina insignis Fromentel, 1861, as well as a lectotype for the species.

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Case 3771: Stylina Lamarck, 1816 (Coelenterata, Scleractinia): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Stylina insignis Fromentel, 1861 as type species and lectotype designation for it

Shaahin Zaman, Bernard Lathuilière, “Case 3771: Stylina Lamarck, 1816 (Coelenterata, Scleractinia): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Stylina insignis Fromentel, 1861 as type species and lectotype designation for it”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. , 2018.

The purpose of this application under Article 81 of the Code is to conserve the name Stylina Lamarck, 1816 in its accustomed usage by designating a new type species Stylina insignis Fromentel, 1861 and to designate a lectotype. Stylina Lamarck, 1816 is a....

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Opinion 2479: Anastrepha Schiner, 1868 (Insecta, Diptera, TephriTidae): usage conserved by conditional reversal of
precedence with respect to Toxotrypana Gerstaecker, 1860

ICZN, “Opinion 2479: Anastrepha Schiner, 1868 (Insecta, Diptera, TephriTidae): usage conserved by conditional reversal of
precedence with respect to Toxotrypana Gerstaecker, 1860”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. 149-151, 2021.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved current usage of the generic name Anastrepha Schiner, 1868 for a group of Neotropical  fruit flies, many of them major pest species, by conditionally reversing its precedence with respect to the senior synonym ....

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Case 3772: Anastrepha Schiner, 1868 (Insecta, Diptera, Tephritidae): Proposed precedence over Toxotrypana Gerstaecker, 1860

Allen L. Norrbom, Norman B. Barr, Peter Kerr, Ximo Mengual, “Case 3772: Anastrepha Schiner, 1868 (Insecta, Diptera, Tephritidae): Proposed precedence over Toxotrypana Gerstaecker, 1860”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. , 2018.

The purpose of this application under Article 23.9.3 of the Code is to conserve the current usage of the well-established genus-group name Anastrepha Schiner, 1868 for a genus of Neotropical fruit flies by reversal of precedence with its senior synonym, Toxotrypana Gerstaecker, 1860, under the....

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Case 3774: Diphyini Simon, 1894 (Arachnida, Araneae, Tetragnathidae): proposed emendation of the current spelling to Diphyaini to remove homonymy with Diphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophorae)

Yuri M. Marusik, “Case 3774: Diphyini Simon, 1894 (Arachnida, Araneae, Tetragnathidae): proposed emendation of the current spelling to Diphyaini to remove homonymy with Diphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophorae)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. , 2018.

The purpose of this application, under Articles 55.3.1 and 29 of the Code, is to remove homonymy between the family-group name Diphyini Simon, 1894 currently placed in Tetragnathidae (Araneae) and the hydrozoan family-group name Diphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827. It is proposed that the spelling of the spider name....

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