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Issue: Vol. 2281 No. 1: 4 Nov. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-11-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2281.1.5
Page range: 68
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Validation of the genus Blagorrhina Hippa, Mattsson & Vilkamaa gen. n. (Diptera: Lygistorrhinidae)

Swedish Museum of Natural History, PO Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoological Museum, PO Box 17, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
Diptera Lygistorrhinidae

Abstract

When we (Hippa, Mattsson and Vilkamaa 2005a) proposed the genus name Blagorrhina gen. n., with two new species, we missed to include the type species designation for the genus. The subsequent correction (Hippa, Mattsson and Vilkamaa 2005b), in which we did not indicate the name to be ‘new’, failed to make the generic name available according to ICZN Article 16.1, and it remained a nomen nudum (Evenhuis et al. 2008).

References

  1. Evenhuis, N.L., Pape, T. & Pont, A. (2008) The problems of subsequent typification in genus-group names and use of the Zoological Record: a study of selected post-1930 Diptera genus-group names without type species designations. Zootaxa, 1912, 1–44.

    Hippa, H., Mattsson, I. & Vilkamaa, P. (2005a) New taxa of the Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea) and their implications for a phylogenetic analysis of the family. Zootaxa, 960, 1–34.

    Hippa, H. Mattsson, I. & Vilkamaa, P. (2005b) The type species of the genus Blagorrhina Hippa, Mattsson & Vilkamaa (Diptera: Lygistorrhinidae). Zootaxa, 1038, 64.