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Issue: Vol. 5397 No. 3: 5 Jan. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-01-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.3.10
Page range: 449-450
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Hathoronthophagus, new replacement name for Hathor Deschodt, 2023, preoccupied genus-group name of a putatively myrmecophilic dung beetle (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini)

South African National Collection of Insects; Agricultural Research Council; Roodeplaat; Pretoria; South Africa
Department of Terrestrial Invertebrates; National Museum; Bloemfontein; South Africa; Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences; Walter Sisulu University; Mthatha; South Africa
Department of Zoology and Entomology; University of Pretoria; Hatfield; Pretoria; South Africa
Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Scarabaeinae Onthophagini

Abstract

In November 2023, Deschodt & Sole (2023) proposed the new genus-group name Hathor Deschodt for a peculiar, putatively ant-associated onthophagine dung beetle from Gauteng province, South Africa. The genus is as yet known only from the female holotype of the species Hathor spinosa Deschodt, 2023. It was overlooked that the new generic name is preoccupied by Hathor Kirkaldy & Edwards, 1902, as regulated by the Principle of Homonymy (Articles 52–60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature [henceforth the Code, Anonymous 1999]). Hathor Kirkaldy & Edwards is a monotypic genus of red bug or cotton stainer (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoroidea: Pyrrhocoridae) from tropical Africa, itself a junior subjective synonym of Sericocoris Karsch, 1892. Sericocoris is currently a valid genus (Robertson 2004; Stehlík & Jindra 2011).

 

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