Resolution of some nomenclatural issues in the Cetoniinae, Dynastinae, Hopliinae, Melolonthinae, Pachydeminae and Sericinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Author Allsopp, Peter G. Queensland Museum Kurilpa, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Australia. Author Schoolmeesters, Paul Langeveldstraat, 23, 3020 Herent, Belgium. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-04-09 5433 4 573 580 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5433.4.6 journal article 293444 10.11646/zootaxa.5433.4.6 b0a9fac9-ad91-44a3-88eb-17cf6c63e521 1175-5326 10954655 CD516307-D2FD-4AD3-9BC6-A78A04EE6956 Zomba Lacroix (2006) created a junior homonym in establishing Zomba Lacroix (2006: 205) for two species of Malawian scarab beetles ( Scarabaeidae : Pachydeminae: Pachydemini), Zomba nyassiensis Lacroix, 2006 ( type species by original designation) and Zomba foai Lacroix, 2006 . No additional species have been described. However, the genus Zomba had been established by Bryant (1923: 263 , type species Zomba gossypii Bryant, 1923 , by original designation) for a beetle damaging cotton plants in Malawi and southern Zambia . Bryant (1923) placed the genus in the Halticidae: Monoplatinae, but it is currently placed in the Chrysomelidae : Alticinae : Monoplatini ( Biondi & D’Alessandro 2010 ) . Only the type species is known, but the genus is particularly interesting because it is the only representative of the Monoplatini in the Afrotropical region, the tribe occurring almost exclusively in the Neotropical and southern part of the Nearctic regions ( Biondi & D’Alessandro 2004 , 2010 ). Biondi & D’Alessandro (2010) give an image of the adult beetle. To resolve the homonymy, in accordance with Article 60 of the Code, we propose Lazomba Allsopp & Schoolmeesters , replacement name as the replacement name for Zomba Lacroix nec Bryant. This results in new combinations for the two species currently included in this genus (see below).