Opinion 1727 Schizopus le Conte, 1858 (Insecta, Coleoptera): placed on the Official List of Generic Names

2 Pages·1993·0.33 MB·English

by  International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

174 BulletinofZoologicalNomenclature50(2)June1993
OPINION 1727
Schizopus Le Conte, 1858 (Insecta, Coleoptera): placed on the Official
List ofGeneric Names
Ruling
(1) ThenameSchizopusLeConte, [April] 1858 (gender: masculine), typespecies
bymonotypySchizopuslaetusLeConte,1858,isherebyplacedontheOfficialListof
GenericNamesinZoology.
(2) ThenamelaetusLeConte, 1858,aspublishedinthebinomenSchizopuslaetus
(specificnameofthetypespeciesofSchizopusLeConte, 1858),isherebyplacedon
theOfficial ListofSpecificNamesinZoology.
(3) The name Schizopus Claparede & Lachmann, [December] 1858 is hereby
placedontheOfficialIndexofRejectedandInvalidGenericNamesinZoology(a
juniorhomonymofSchizopusLeConte,[April] 1858).
HistoryofCase2773
An application for the conservation ofSchizopus Le Conte, 1858 was received
from ProfG.H. Nelson (College ofOsteopathic Medicine ofthe Pacific. Pomona.
California. U.S.A.)on 14May1990.Aftercorrespondencethecasewaspublishedin
BZN 48: 305-307 (December 1991). Notice ofthe case was sent to appropriate
journals. Comments by Prof L.B. Holthuis (Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum.
Leiden. TheNetherlands)andDrV. Mahnert(Museumd'HistoireNaturelle. Geneve,
Switzerland), published in BZN 49: 232-233 (September 1992), gave the dates of
publicationofthe(1858)worksbyLeConteandClaparede&LachmannasApril
and Decemberrespectively.
ItwasnotedonthevotingpaperthatsinceSchizopusLeContewasthepriorname
therewasnoneedforCommissionactiontoconserveit.Proposal(4)(1)onBZN48:
305-306 was therefore withdrawn. The Commission was asked only to place
Schizopus,andthenameofitstypespeciesS. laetus,bothofLeConte([April] 1858),
on appropriate Official Lists, and Schizopus Claparede & Lachmann, [December]
1858(ajuniorhomonym)on theOfficialIndex. Useoftheplenarypowerswasnot
requiredandasimplemajorityvotewouldsuffice.
DecisionoftheCommission
On 1 December1992themembersoftheCommissionwereinvitedtovoteonthe
proposalspublishedinBZN48:306,withproposal(4)(1)withdrawn,asnotedabove.
Atthecloseofthev—otingperiodon 1 March 1993thevoteswereasfollows:
Affirmative votes 26: Bayer, Bock, Bouchet, Cocks, Cogger, Corliss, Dupuis,
Hahn, Halvorsen, Holthuis, Kabata, Kraus, Macpherson, Mahnert, Martins de
Souza, Minelli, Nielsen, Nye, Ride, Savage, Schuster, Starobogatov, Thompson,
Trjapitzin, Ueno,—Willink
Negativevotes 2: HeppellandStys.
Lehtinenabstained.
Heppell, Lehtinen and Stys commented that, in their view, there was no need
to place the senior homonym Schizopus Le Conte on the Official List. (Editorial
BulletinofZoologicalNomenclature50(2)June1993 175
note. Thisisthemosteffectivewayofrecordingthe factswhichcametohght asa
resultofthesubmissionofthecasetotheCommission).
Originalreferences
ThefollowingaretheoriginalreferencestothenamesplacedonOfficialListsandanOfficial
IndexbytherulinggiveninthepresentOpinion:
laetus,Schizopus, LeConte,[April] 1858,ProceedingsoftheAcademyofNaturalSciencesof
Philadelphia,1858;70.
SchizopusClaparede&Lachmann,[December]1858,MemoiresdeI'InstilutNationalGenevois.
5: 182.
Schizopus Le Conte, [April] 1858, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia, 1858:70.