A new replacement name for junior homonym Sichuania Lopatin, 2002 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)

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by  I. K. Lopatin

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A new replacement name for junior homonym Sichuania
Lopatin, 2002 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)
I.K. Lopatin
Lopatin, I.K. 2008. A new replacement name for junior homonym Sichuania Lopatin, 2002 (Co-
leoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Zoosystematica rossica, 17(1): 138.
New replacement name proposed for subgenus Sichuania Lop. in genus Meristata Strand.
I.K. Lopatin, Dept. of Zoology, Byelorussian St. University, prosp. Nezavisimosti 4, Minsk 220030,
Belarus.
The following replacement name is proposed for Acknowledgement
junior homonym: Sichuanella nom. n. (as sub-
genus of Meristata Strand, 1935) for Sichuania I wish to express my thanks to the Dr. Jan Bezdek (Brno,
Czech Republic) who called attention on homonymie.
Lopatin, 2002, Entom. obozr., 81, 4: 881-882,
junior homonym of Sichuania Chen, 1976 in Gu et Received 10 April 2008, accepted 12 June 2008.
al. Nanjing Inst. Geol. Palaeont. Acad. Sinica, Sci.
Press, Beijing. P. 151 (Mollusca) and Sichuania
Lin, 1990. Acta Micropalaeont. Sinica, 7 (2). P.
167 (Crustacea).