Cavichia, a replacement generic name for Caragonia Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Cavichia, um nome genérico substituto para Caragonia Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

SCIENTIFIC NOTE

Cavichia, a replacement generic name for Caragonia Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Cavichia, um nome genérico substituto para Caragonia Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

André Nemésio

Depto. Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais. C. postal 486, 30.123-970, Belo Horizonte, MG, [e-mail] or [e-mail]

ABSTRACT

Cavichianom. nov. is proposed for Caragonia Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani, 2003 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), preoccupied by Caragonia Gemminger & Harold, 1870 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).

Key words: Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, homonymy, zoological nomenclature

RESUMO

Cavichianom. nov. é proposto para substituir Caragonia Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani, 2003 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), pré-ocupado por Caragonia Gemminger & Harold, 1870 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).

Palavras-chave: Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, homonímia, nomenclatura zoológica

Cavichia nom. nov.

Caragonia Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani, 2003: 2 (type-species: Caragonia bella Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani, 2003, by original designation), nec Caragonia Gemminger & Harold, 1870: 1937 (in syn.).

Takiya and colleagues described the genus Caragonia (Hemiptera) for two species [C. bella Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani, and C. monstruosa (Signoret)] of Neotropical Cicadellidae. However, this name is preoccupied by Caragonia Gemminger & Harold, 1870, a genus of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) described as a junior synonym of Trichosternum Wollaston.

According to the current edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999), "a name which when first published in an available work was treated as a junior synonym of a name then used as valid is not thereby made available" (Article 11.6). Nonetheless, Article 11.6.1 states that "however, if such a name published as a junior synonym had been treated before 1961 as an available name and either adopted as the name of a taxon or treated as a senior homonym, it is made available thereby but dates from its first publication as a synonym". Although it was Reiche who named the genus Caragonia (in a manuscript, see Gemminger & Harold, 1870: 1938, under Caragonia canariense), Article 50.7 clearly states that "if a scientific name (taken, for example, from a label or manuscript) was first published in the synonymy of an available name and became available before 1961 through the provisions of the Article 11.6, its author is the person who published it as a synonym, even if some other originator is cited, and is not the person who subsequently adopted it as a valid name". For these reasons, Caragonia autorship is correctly assigned to Gemminger & Harold in "Nomenclator Zoologicus" (Neave, 1939: 579) and treated there as an available name.

Therefore, Cavichia nom. nov. is here proposed to replace Caragonia Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani, 2003. The generic name is in honor to the entomologist Rodney Ramiro Cavichioli. As a result, the following new combinations are introduced: Cavichia bella (Takiya, Cavichioli & Mejdalani) comb. nov. and Cavichia monstruosa (Signoret) comb. nov.

Acknowledgments

I express my gratitude to Eduardo Andrade Botelho de Almeida for the constructive discussions on several details of the Code.

Received 30/VIII/05.

Accepted 19/X/05.

• Gemminger, M. & E. Harold. 1870. Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque Descriptorum Synonymicus et Systematicus. Monachii 7: 1801-2180.
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition. Padova, The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, 306p.
• Neave, S.A. 1939. Nomenclator Zoologicus A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaues 1758 to the end of 1935. V. 1 A-C. London, The Zoological Society of London, 957p.
• Takiya, D.M., R.R. Cavichioli & G. Mejdalani. 2003. Caragonia, a new genus of Cicadellini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 335: 1-10.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  11 Dec 2006
• Date of issue
  Oct 2006

History

• Accepted
  19 Oct 2005
• Received
  30 Aug 2005