Five new replacement names in Reduviidae (Heteroptera) Author Swanson, Daniel R. text Zootaxa 2017 2017-10-31 4341 2 291 295 journal article 31689 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.2.12 05e45ff4-b918-44d7-a800-4cdb335b5c3c 1175-5326 1039463 479EA688-B87A-4313-81F8-E829C4BDA940 Acanthaspis celidota nom. nov. = Acanthaspis maculata Sucheta & Chopra, 1989 : 164 . Junior secondary homonym of Acanthaspis maculata (Distant, 1903) . The relevant nomenclatural details for this name are summarized in Table 1 . TABLE 1. Nomenclatural history for Acanthaspis maculata . Senior homonym: Junior homonym: Acanthaspis maculata (Distant, 1903) Acanthaspis maculata Sucheta & Chopra, 1989 1. Distant (1903b: 58) described Velitra maculata as a new species from Burma. 2. Distant (1904: 277) redescribed Velitra maculata Distant, 1903 , referring to additional material from Calcutta. 3. Distant (1910: 194) transferred Velitra maculata Distant, 1903 to Acanthaspis , resulting in the combination Acanthaspis maculata (Distant, 1903) . In this treatment, he referred to the 1904 re-description as "When I originally described this species...", despite the earlier true original description of 1903. 1. Sucheta & Chopra (1989: 164) described Acanthaspis maculatus [sic] for a new species from India. 4. Maldonado (1990: 386, 456) erroneously treated the following taxa as distinct species: Velitra maculata Distant, 1903 and Acanthaspis maculata Distant, 1910 . The latter combination does not refer to any actual species-group taxon. 2. Kerzhner (1992: 59) noted the correct spelling for the specific epithet and drew attention to the homonymy. Acanthaspis Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 is feminine, being derived from two Greek feminine nouns, ἄκανΘα, -Ης, Latinized acantha , ‘thorn, prickle, spine’ and ἀσπΊς, -Ίδος, Latinized aspis , ‘shield’. With the mandatory change in gender of the specific epithet ( ICZN 1999, Art. 31.2 ), Sucheta & Chopra’s (1989) name is a junior secondary homonym ( ICZN 1999, Art. 57.3 ), and it is here rejected. This species was described subsequently to either world catalog (i.e., Putshkov & Putshkov 1987 , Maldonado 1990 ), and no junior synonyms known to me exist for this taxon. Thus, a new substitute name is required under Art. 60 ( ICZN 1999 ). Therefore, I propose Acanthaspis celidota nom. nov. for Acanthaspis maculata Sucheta & Chopra, 1989 . The epithet is derived from the Greek adjective, κΗλῑδωτός, -ή, -ον, Latinized celidotus , - a , - um , ‘stained, soiled, spotted’ and reflects the spotted pattern highlighted in the original epithet.