Opinion 1741 Gerris paludum Fabricius, 1794 (currently Aquarius Paludum; Insecta, Heteroptera): specific name conserved

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by  International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

BulletinofZoologicalNomenclature50(3)September1993 245
OPINION 1741
Gerrispaludum Fabricius, 1794(currently Aquariuspaludum; Insecta,
Heteroptera): specific name conserved
Ruling
(1) UndertheplenarypowersthenamealatusRetzius, 1783,aspublishedin the
trinomen Cimex najas var. alatus. is hereby suppressed for the purposes of the
PrincipleofPrioritybutnotforthoseofthePrincipleofHomonymy.
(2) The name paludum Fabricius, 1794, as published in the binomen Gerris
paludum and asdefined by the lectotypedesignated byAndersen (1990), is hereby
placed on theOfficialListofSpecificNamesinZoology.
(3) ThenamealatusRetzius, 1783.aspublishedinthetrinomen Cimexnajasvar.
alatus and as suppressed in (1) above, is hereby placed on the Official Index of
RejectedandInvalidSpecificNamesinZoology.
HistoryofCase2794
An application for the conservation of the specific name of Gerris paludum
Fabricius, 1794 was received from Dr N. MoUer Andersen {Zoologisk Museum.
University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen. Denmark) on 15 October 1990. After
correspondencethecasewaspublished in BZN49: 118-119(June 1992). Noticeof
thecasewassenttoappropriatejournals.
DecisionoftheCommission
On 1 March 1993 the members ofthe Commission were invited to vote on the
proposalspublishedinBZN49: 118-119.Atthecloseofthevotingperiodon1June
1993thevoteswere—asfollows:
Affirmativevotes 24: Bayer, Bock, Bouchet, Cocks, Cogger, Corliss, Dupuis,
Hahn, Halvorsen, Heppell, Holthuis, Kraus, Macpherson, Mahnert, Martins de
Souza,Minelli,Nie—lsen,Nye,Savage,Schuster,Stys,Thompson,Trjapitzin,Willink
Negativevotes 1: Lehtinen.
Novoteswerereceivedfrom Kabata,StarobogatovandUeno.
Ridewasonleaveofabsence.
Lehtinenconsideredthatpriorityshouldapply;thetypematerialofCimexalatus
Retzius, 1783probablyexists(para. 3oftheapplication),andthesynonymyofthe
name with Gerrispaludum Fabricius, 1794 had been interpreted by a well known
specialist (O.M. Reuter). Thompson commented that most entomologists had
ignoredthenamespublishedinRetzius(1783)becausetheybelievedtheworknotto
beconsistentlybinominal.
Originalreferences
Thefollowingaretheoriginal referencestothenamesplacedon anOfficial Listandan
OfficialIndexbytherulinggiveninthepresentOpinion:
alatus,Cimexnajasvar.,Retzius, 1783, CaroliDeGeergeneraetspeciesinsectorum,p.89.
paludum, Gerris,Fabricius, 1794,Entomologiasystematicaemendataetaucta,vol.4,p. 188.
The following is the reference for the designation of the lectotype of Gerrispaludum
Fabricius, 1794:
Andersen,N.M. 1990.Sleenslrupia.16:59.