Opinion 1624 Ixodes angustus Neumann, 1899 and I. Woodi Bishopp, 1911 (Arachnida, Acari): specific names conserved by the replacement of the holotype of I. Angustus by a neotype

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68 BulletinofZoologicalNomenclature48(1)March199
OPINION 1624
IxodesangustusNeumann, 1899 and/. fvoorfiBishopp, 1911 (Arachnida,
Acari): specific namesconservedby thereplacementoftheholotypeof
/. angustusby aneotype
Ruling
(1) Undertheplenarypowersitisherebyruledthat:
(a) thetypestatusoftheholotypeofIxodesangustusNeumann, 1899issuppressed;
(b) the specimen referred to in BZN46: 168, para. 8, namelycat. no. RML49479
in the U.S. National Tick collection. Department of Entomology, Museum
Support Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. is hereby
designatedastheneotypeofIxodesangustusNeumann, 1899.
(2) ThefollowingnamesareherebyplacedontheOfficialListofSpecificNamesin
Zoology:
(a) angustusNeumann, 1899, as published in the binomen Ixodesangustus and as
definedbytheneotypedesignatedin(l)(b)above;
(b) woodiBishopp, 1911,aspublishedinthetrinomenIxodesangustusvar. woodi.
HistoryofCase2696
An application for the designation ofa replacement neotype for Ixodes angustus
Neumann, 1899 was received from Drs Richard G. Robbins & James E. Keirans
(DepartmentofHealthandHumanServices,NationalInstituteofAllergyandInfectious
Diseases,c/oSmithsonianInstitution, Washington,D.C., U.S.A.)on6December 1988.
Aftercorrespondence thecasewaspublished in BZN46: 167-169 (September 1989).
Notice ofthe case was sent to appropriatejournals. The proposal was supported by
the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (see para. 10 of the
application). Acommentin supportfrom DrG.B. White(Editor, Medical& Veterin-
aryMedicine)waspublishedinBZN47:211-212(September 1990),andwascirculated
tothemembersoftheCommissionwiththevotingpapers.
DecisionoftheCommission
On 1 September 1990 the members ofthe Commission were invited to vote on the
proposalspubhshedin BZN46: 168. Atthecloseofthevotingperiod on 1 December
1990thevoteswereas—follows:
Affirmative votes 24: Bayer, Bock, Cocks, Cogger, Corliss, Hahn, Heppell,
Kabata, Kraus, Lehtinen, Macpherson, Mahnert, Martins de Souza, Minelli,
Mroczkowski, Nielsen, Nye, Ride, Savage, Schuster, Thompson, Trjapitzin, Ueno,
Willink —
Negativevotes 2: HolthuisandStarobogatov.
NovotewasreceivedfromHalvorsen.
Dupuis abstained because thecomment in supportby G.B. White (see above) was
published during the voting period. Starobogatov commented that it was not good
practicetoreplaceaholotypewithaneotype.
Originalreferences
ThefollowingaretheoriginalreferencestothenamesplacedonanOfficialListbytheruling
giveninthepresentOpinion:
angustus,Ixodes,Neumann, 1899,MemoiresdelaSocieteZoologiquedeFrance,12: 136.
woodi,Ixodes,Bishopp, 1911,ProceedingsoftheBiologicalSocietyofWashington,14:205.