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Issue: Vol. 3060 No. 1: 17 Oct. 2011
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2011-10-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3060.1.5
Page range: 67–68
Abstract views: 105
PDF downloaded: 30

Change of authorship of Aphodius and Oryctes to Hellwig, 1798 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Depto. de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, Colorado 80228-5798, U.S.A
Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Abstract

The dung beetle genus Aphodius and the rhinoceros beetle genus Oryctes rank among the more widely used scientific insect names. Both have been attributed to Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger who had introduced those names in his "Verzeichniss der Käfer Preussens" in 1798. The names are undisputed and stable. The discovery of a preview of Illiger’s book, published eight months earlier, prompts a change of authorship to Hellwig (1798) for both of these generic names.

References

  1. Anonymous (1798) [without title, "In der Gebauerschen Buchhandlung zu Halle sind folgende neue Bücher erschienen"; under: Ankündigungen neuer Bücher, announcements of new books]. Intelligenzblatt der Allgemeinen Literatur-Zeitung 1798 (Numero 134, 19.ix.1798) [supplement to: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung vom Jahre 1798, Dritter Band], 1115–1118.

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    Hellwig, J.C.L. (1798) [without title; under: Ankündigungen neuer Bücher, announcements of new books]. Intelligenzblatt der Allgemeinen Literatur-Zeitung 1798 (Numero 13, 24.i.1798) [supplement to: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung vom Jahre 1798, Erster Band], 100–101. [letter dated xi.1797] URL see above.

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    Weidmannische Buchhandlung (1798) [without title; under: Ankündigungen neuer Bücher, announcements of new books]. Intelligenzblatt der Allgemeinen Literatur-Zeitung 1798 (Numero 31, 21.ii.1798) [supplement to: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung vom Jahre 1798, Erster Band], 278–279. [letter dated 12.ii.1798] URL: see above.