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Issue: Vol. 4612 No. 3: 30 May 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-05-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.3.11
Page range: 441–441
Abstract views: 73
PDF downloaded: 22

Bulbotrachystola, a substitute name for Centruroides Breuning, 1940 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae)

Nationalmusée fir Naturgeschicht, rue Münster 25, L-2160 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Coleoptera

Abstract

The genus name Centruroides was first introduced by George Marx (in Howard, 1889: 211) for two species of scorpions in the family Buthidae: C. exilicauda (Wood, 1863) and C. luctifer n. sp. The latter species, coming from Indefatigable Is. (Galapagos), lacks a description and has been considered as a nomen nudum and synonym of Centruroides exsul (Meise, 1934) (Lambertz, 2013). Nonetheless, exilicauda Wood (Buthus) is an available and valid species name; thus, Centruroides is available according to the ICZN, 1999, Art. 12.2.5. (“the specific name or names can be unambiguously assigned to a nominal species-group taxon or taxa”).

 

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