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PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 98(2), 1996, p. 376 Note An Overlooked Paper on Heteroptera by N. A. Kormilev In the recent bibliography of the works by Carver, M., G. F. Gross and T. E. Wood- ofNicholas A. Kormilev, by R. C. Froesch- ward. 1991, Hemiptera, vol. 1, pp. 429-509 ner (1995, Proceedings of the Entomologi- In The Insects ofAustralia, Edition II, CSI- cal Society of Washington 97: 515-547), RO, Canberra). It lists taxa for the region, one publication was overlooked: Kormilev, restates some already existing synonymies, N. A. 1929. A contribution to the study of and gives distributions. Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Jugoslavia. (In Several years ago I purchased from Dr. Serbian). Acta Societatis EntomologicaeJu- Kormilev his personal setofhis own works, goslavensis 3-4: 79-91. supposedly complete. When asked about This paper was noticed by J. A. Slater his 1929 paper, he wrote: "Thepaperwhich (1964, A catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the you mentioned was my first attempt to de- world. Univ. Conn., Storrs, Vol. II, pp. scribe what I had at that time. I didn't get 779-1668; p. 1572) but missed by other au- page proof and there were mistakes, so I thors, including those providing catalogs don't count it and I don't have it now. I with comprehensive bibliographies. There started with #1 in 1936, and that paper you are no major taxonomic changes or new have." taxa proposed in this work, which may be All ofus who have published extensively why it has been commonly overlooked. are painfully aware that, no matterhow em- Kormilev's 1929 paper deals with the barrassing or unfortunate, a paperpublished families Acanthosomatidae, Pentatomidae, in the open literature cannot be withdrawn Plataspidae, Scutelleridae, Thyreocoridae, or suppressed. W Stenocephalidae, Rhopalidae, Coreidae, I am grateful to Carl Schaeferforhelp Berytidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Piesmatidae, Ly- with a foreign language problem. gaeidae, Reduviidae, Cimicidae, Anthocor- idae, Miridae, Hydrometridae, Veliidae, J. T Polhemus, Colorado Entomological Gerridae, Saldidae, Naucoridae, Nepidae, Museum, 3115 S. YorkSt., Englewood, Col- Notonectidae, and Corixidae (as recognized orado 80110, U.S.A.
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