Replacement name for Ectopsocus brunneus Vishnyakova (Psocoptera: Ectopsocidae)

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Memoirs ofthe Museum ofVictoria 53(2): 221 (1992)
REPLACEMENT NAME FOR ECTOPSOCUS BRUNNEUS VISHNYAKOVA
(PSOCOPTERA: ECTOPSOCIDAE)
By Evan R. Schmidt
Department ofZoology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic. 3083, Australia
Abstract
Schmidt, E.R., 1992. ReplacementnameforEctopsocusbrunneusVishnyakova(Psocop-
tera: Ectopsocidae). Memoirs oftheMuseum ofVictoria 53: 221.
Ectopsocus vishnyakovae is erected to replace E. brunneus Vishnyakova, 1963 preoccu-
pied by E. brunneus (Edwards, 1950).
My
attention has been drawn by an anony- References
mousreviewerofourpaperonthePsocopteraof
Wilsons Promontory National Park, Victoria Edwards,B.A.B., 1950.AstudyoftheTasmanianPso-
(Schmidt and Thornton, 1992), to the fact that aconpdtePrraocweietdhindgesscorfitphteiRonosyaolfSnoecwietsypeocfieTsa.sPmaapneiras
the species name brunneus forEctopsocus brun- 1949: 93-134.
neus Vishnyakova, 1963 has become a second- Schmidt, E.R. and Thornton, I.W.B., 1992. The Pso-
aryhomonymofEctopsocusbrunneus(Edwards, coptera (Insecta) of Wilsons Promontory
1950), transferred to Ectopsocus McLachlan NationalPark,Victoria,Australia.Memoirsofthe
from Interpsocus Edwards by Thornton and Museum ofVictoria 53: 137-220.
Wong (1968). A new name is thus required for Svadzhyan, R.K., Vishnyakova, V.N. and Mardz-
Vishnyakova's Armenian species to replace the hanyan, K.S., 1963. On the Copeognatha ofthe
junior homonym. ArmenianS.S.R. andthemethodsoftheirpreser-
vation in the laboratory. Izvestiia-Akademiia
Ectopsocus vishnyakovae nom. nov. NaukArmianskoiS.S.R. BiologicheskieNauki 16
(9): 89-94.
Ectopsocus brunneus Vishnyakova. V.N. in Svadz- Thornton, I.W.B. andWong, S.K., 1968. Theperipso-
hyan, R.K., Vishnyakova, V.N. and Mardzhanyan, cidfauna(Psocoptera)oftheOrientalRegionand
K.S., 1963: 92, [preoccupied by Ectopsocus brunneus the Pacific. PacificInsectsMonograph 19: 1-158.
(Edwards, 1950: 126. figs 95-102) transferred to
Ectopsocus by Thornton and Wong, 1968].
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