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1 June 2015 Case 3684
Elasmostethus dorsalis Jakovlev, 1876 (currently Elasmucha dorsalis; Insecta, Heteroptera): proposed precedence over Acanthosoma vicinum Uhler, 1861 (currently Elasmucha vicina)
Jing-Fu Tsai, Dávid Rédei, Berend Aukema, Attilio Carapezza, Máriom A. Carvajal, Eduardo I. Faúndez, Sunghoon Jung, Elena Kanyukova, Petr Kment, Shin-ichi Kudo, Guo-Qing Liu, David A. Rider, Jitka Vilímová, Nikolay N. Vinokurov, Xiao-Jing Wang, Aki Yamamoto
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Abstract

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the widely used specific name Elasmucha dorsalis (Jakovlev, 1876) for a species of subsocial acanthosomatid bug from East Asia. The name is threatened by the senior subjective synonym Elasmucha vicina (Uhler, 1861), which has seldom been used since its first publication. Therefore, precedence of the name Elasmucha dorsalis (Jakovlev, 1876) is proposed.

Jing-Fu Tsai, Dávid Rédei, Berend Aukema, Attilio Carapezza, Máriom A. Carvajal, Eduardo I. Faúndez, Sunghoon Jung, Elena Kanyukova, Petr Kment, Shin-ichi Kudo, Guo-Qing Liu, David A. Rider, Jitka Vilímová, Nikolay N. Vinokurov, Xiao-Jing Wang, and Aki Yamamoto "Case 3684
Elasmostethus dorsalis Jakovlev, 1876 (currently Elasmucha dorsalis; Insecta, Heteroptera): proposed precedence over Acanthosoma vicinum Uhler, 1861 (currently Elasmucha vicina)," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(2), 115-121, (1 June 2015). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v72i2.a15
Published: 1 June 2015
KEYWORDS
acanthosomatidae
East Asia
Elasmucha
Elasmucha dorsalis
Elasmucha vicina
Heteroptera
nomenclature
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