Abstract
By transferring Lecithocera paulianella Viette, 1955 to the genus Dichomeris (Gelechiidae), Park, Koo & Minet (2020: 155, 173) caused a nomenclatorial problem (see Art. 52.1) since in that genus there exists already a species Dichomeris paulianella Viette, 1957 which by this action becomes a junior secondary homonym (see Art. 53.3). Though the authors were aware of this homonymy, they refrained from proposing a replacement name (Park et al. 2020: 174). In order to make it possible to distinguish both taxa by their names and prevent future confusion, we herewith propose Dichomeris pauliani De Prins & Koo, nom. nov. as the objective replacement name (see Art. 60.3) for Dichomeris paulianella Viette, 1957.
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4845.2.1
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