The purpose of this application, under Article 81.2.1 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name Apion longirostre Olivier, 1807 for the well-known apionid beetle (family apionidae) from western Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions by suppressing the name Apion longirostre Gravenhorst, 1807, senior primary homonym of the former.
Apion longirostre Olivier, 1807 (currently Rhopalapion longirostre; Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation of usage of the specific name," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 71(3), 162-165, (1 September 2014). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v71i3.a14