Five new replacement names in Reduviidae (Heteroptera)
Author
Swanson, Daniel R.
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-10-31
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10.11646/zootaxa.4341.2.12
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Reduvius lasius
nom. nov.
=
Reduvius villosus
Fabricius, 1794
: 194
. Junior secondary homonym of
Reduvius villosus
(
Thunberg, 1783
)
. The relevant nomenclatural details for this name are summarized in
Table 2
.
TABLE 2.
Nomenclatural history for
Reduvius villosus
.
Senior homonym: Junior homonym:
Reduvius villosus
(
Thunberg, 1783
)
Reduvius villosus
Fabricius, 1794
1.
Linnaeus (1758: 446)
described
Cimex personatus
as a
new species from “Europa”.
2.
Fabricius (1775: 730)
transferred
Cimex personatus
Linnaeus, 1758
to his new genus
Reduvius
, thereby creating the combination
Reduvius personatus
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
.
3.
Thunberg (1783: 35)
described
Cimex villosus
as a new species from an unknown locality, referring his species to Stoll’s (1781: 57, pl. XIII, fig. 90) “
De Bonte Ruygpoot
” from
Surinam
. Note: In Stoll's work, “
De Bonte Ruig-poot
” was actually depicted in fig. 91, although, based on the all black coloration, Thunberg clearly intended the bug depicted in fig. 90, “
De Zwarte Ruigpoot
”.
1.
Fabricius (1794: 194)
described
Reduvius villosus
as a new species from “Barbaria” (=Barbary Coast: present-day North Africa).
4.
Stål (1855: 345)
synonymized
Cimex villosus
Thunberg, 1783
with
Reduvius personatus
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
.
2.
Stål (1868: 124)
transferred
Reduvius villosus
Fabricius, 1794
to the genus
Opsicoetus
Klug, 1830
, thereby creating the combination
Opsicoetus villosus
(
Fabricius, 1794
)
. However,
Burmeister (1835: 234)
had synonymized the genus
Opsicoetus
with
Reduvius
, and this synonymy has been followed by nearly all subsequent authors.
5.
Puton (1875: 96)
transferred
Cimex villosus
Thunberg, 1783
to the genus
Reduvius
Fabricius, 1775
, resulting in the combination
Reduvius villosus
(
Thunberg, 1783
)
.
Fabricius’ (1794) name is a junior secondary homonym (
ICZN 1999, Art. 57.3
), and it is here rejected. No junior synonyms exist for this taxon (
Putshkov & Putshkov 1987
,
1996
;
Maldonado 1990
), and a new substitute name is required under Art. 60 (
ICZN 1999
). Therefore, I propose
Reduvius lasius
nom. nov.
for
Reduvius villosus
Fabricius, 1794
. The new epithet is derived from the Greek adjective λάσῐος, -α, -ον, Latinized
lasius
, -
a
, -
um
, ‘shaggy, woolly’ and reflects the hairiness highlighted in the original epithet.