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Issue: Vol. 4067 No. 4: 25 Jan 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-01-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.4.3
Page range: 463–464
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 53

Ibonikawhite, new replacement name for Whitea Descamps, 1977 (Orthoptera: Thericleidae), not Whitea Hutton, 1904 (Coleoptera: Pselaphinae), and standardised English names for the included species

South African National Collection of Insects, ARC-Plant Protection Research, Roodeplaat, Pretoria, South Africa.
Biodiversity Research & Assessment Division, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, Montrose, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Orthoptera Thericleidae

Abstract

Marius Descamps (1977) established the genus Whitea for four new species of forbhoppers (Orthoptera: Thericleidae) from the present-day Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. The type species (by original designation) is W. fissicauda Descamps, 1977. Descamps’s genus name is, however, preoccupied by Whitea Hutton, 1904, the name of a monotypic shortwing mould beetle genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from New Zealand. Whitea Hutton is itself a replacement name and was involved in another nomenclatural muddle, resolved by Brown (1964). The type species of the pselaphine genus (by monotypy) is Euplectus laevifrons Broun, 1893: 1425.

 

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