Abstract
The genus Orthopleura Imbrie, 1959 (Brachiopoda: Rhynchonelliformea: Strophomenata: Orthotetida: Orthotetidina: Chilidiopsoidea: Areostrophiidae: Areostrophiinae, following the classification of Kaesler & Selden 1997–2007) was erected to contain three species of extinct brachiopods from Devonian deposits in the United States. Orthopleura rhipis Imbrie, 1959 was assigned as the type species at time of erection. Streptorhynchus flabellum Whitfield, 1882, Schuchertella orthoplicata Stainbrook, 1943, and two undescribed species, “Orthopleura sp. A” and “Orthopleura sp. B”, were treated as congeneric (Imbrie 1959). However, Orthopleura Imbrie, 1959 is a junior homonym of Orthopleura Spinola, 1845 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cleridae), the latter being the type genus of the subfamily Orthopleurinae Böving & Craighead, 1931: 56 (see also Opitz 2017 on the validity of this name), The aforementioned usage for the brachiopod taxon must be rejected because the name is not available per Article 60 of The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999, and henceforth “the Code”). The rejected junior homonym has no known available and potentially valid synonym and must be replaced by a new substitute name.
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https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.583.7084
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1877.tb02922.x
ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4th Edition. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306 pp.
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https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent126543-3
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2013.775797
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https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-71.3.421
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Whitfield, R.P. (1882) XIII.—Descriptions of new species of fossils from Ohio, with remarks on some of the geological formations in which they occur. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 2 (7–8), 193–244. Available from: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109505 (accessed 19 February 2020)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1882.tb56957.x
Winkler, J.R. (1979) Enopliinae of Palaearctis, Part 1: Dermestoides J. C. Schaeff., 1771, available and valid generic name for European Orthopleura sanguinicollis (F., 1787) (Col., Cleridae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 26 (4–5), 309–314.
https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.19790260414
Winkler, J.R. (1984) Enopliinae of Palaearctis, Part 2 Syriopelta gen. n., new genus established for Syrian Orthopleura funebris Fairmaire, 1892. (Col., Cleridae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 31 (1–3), 177–185.
https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.19840310128