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Genu
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5193FF361667FF23" bold="true" box="[238,336,222,248]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">Ploiaria</emphasis>
Scopoli, 1786
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A51EAFECD17DBFEE0" box="[151,236,293,315]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">Ploiaria</emphasis>
Scopoli, 1786: 60
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. Type species by monotypy:
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.
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Scopoli, 1786
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. For full synonymy see Maldonado-Capriles (1990: 108).
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There are about 20 species of
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5322FE6E158BFE44" box="[607,700,390,415]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">Ploiaria</emphasis>
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in the Oriental Region (
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), two of which are published records for
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, i.e.,
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A50E9FE4416D0FE18" box="[404,487,426,451]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P. anak</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A53C2FE4415FAFE18" box="[703,717,428,451]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
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<bibRefCitation id="EFF7208AFFFE281A5261FE42139BFE18" box="[796,1196,426,451]" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" refId="ref4781" refString="Ravichandran, G. &amp; Livingstone, D. (1989) Two new species of Emesinae from western ghats (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae). Journal of Entomological Research, 13 (2), 125 - 127." type="journal article">Ravichandran &amp; Livingstone, 1989</bibRefCitation>
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.The Indian record of the Afrotropical species
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A50DAFE271502FE3C" box="[423,565,462,487]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P. soudanica</emphasis>
Dispons, 1960 (
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)
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has not been subsequently confirmed and it is likely based on misidentification; a species superficially similar to
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A52F0FE1C132AFDD0" box="[909,1053,498,523]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P. soudanica</emphasis>
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has been recently collected by us and is currently under examination (see Discussion). Neither
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5230FDFF146CFDF5" box="[845,859,535,558]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
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nor
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A52A5FDFF14D1FDF5" box="[984,998,535,558]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
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appear in the key of
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where
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and three other species are distinguished by a prominent spine on the trochanter.
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5466FDD4121EFD88" box="[1307,1321,572,595]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
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can be distinguished from these other similar species by its distinctly granulate head (
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). The texture of the head was omitted from the description of
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5309FD6C15B5FD40" box="[628,642,644,667]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
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as was the habitus figure given earlier in its unpublished thesis description (
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).
</paragraph>
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Regarding the specific epithet of the
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5307FD2215E0FD38" box="[634,727,714,739]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">Ploiaria</emphasis>
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species described by
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, it appears three times in the text (p. 125), spelled once as
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5269FD06147BFCDC" box="[788,844,750,775]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nuda</emphasis>
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and twice as
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5296FD061316FCDC" box="[1003,1057,750,775]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nude</emphasis>
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; the word probably relates to the absence of a spine on the fore trochanter. Prior to its description, it was referred to as
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<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A550CFCFC1348FCF0" box="[1137,1151,788,811]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
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in Ravichandrans (1988) unpublished thesis (suggesting
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</taxonomicName>
was a typographical error in the original description) and subsequently it was listed as
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A5036FCB41696FCA8" authorityName="Ravichandran &amp; Livingstone" authorityYear="1989" box="[331,417,858,883]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nuda">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5036FCB4166EFCA8" box="[331,345,860,883]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5014FCB21696FCA8" box="[361,417,858,883]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nuda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in Ambroses (2006: 2396) checklist but as
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A52DEFCB414C0FCA8" box="[931,1015,858,883]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nude">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A52DEFCB41486FCA8" box="[931,945,860,883]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A52BCFCB214C0FCA8" box="[961,1015,858,883]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nude</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the Web Supplement of the same (
<bibRefCitation id="EFF7208AFFFE281A51E3FC961643FC4C" box="[158,372,894,919]" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" refId="ref4480" refString="Ambrose, D. P. (2006) A checklist of Indian assassin bugs (Insects: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) with taxonomic status, distribution and diagnostic morphological characteristics. Zoos' Print Journal, 21 (9), 2388 - 2406. Available from: http: // www. zoosprint. org / ZooPrintJournal / 2006 / September / 2406 sup. pdf (Accessed 5 Mar. 2018)" type="journal article">Ambrose, 2006: v</bibRefCitation>
). This species was omitted from Maldonado Capriless (1990) catalogue (although
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A5443FC961616FC60" authority="Miller" authorityName="Miller" authorityYear="1950" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nuda">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5443FC9617F8FC60" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">Ploiaria nuda</emphasis>
Miller
</taxonomicName>
was synonymized as
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A5356FC4A1466FC60" authority="(Miller)" authorityName="Miller" box="[555,849,930,955]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Paraluteva" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nuda">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5356FC4A15DBFC60" box="[555,748,930,955]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">Paraluteva nuda</emphasis>
(Miller)
</taxonomicName>
on page 208); but it was included as
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A545FFC4C124DFC60" box="[1314,1402,930,955]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nude">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A545FFC4C1207FC60" box="[1314,1328,932,955]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A543EFC4A124DFC60" box="[1347,1402,930,955]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nude</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in Kerzhners (1992: 58) corrections to that catalogue. We are unaware of any valid selection of correct original spelling as First Reviser Act either under Art. 24.2.3 or 24.2.4. of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (
<bibRefCitation id="EFF7208AFFFE281A5038FBE716FAFBFC" box="[325,461,1039,1063]" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" refId="ref4625" refString="ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4 th Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp." type="book">ICZN 1999</bibRefCitation>
). The decision on which spelling to use is made more complicated as another
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A543AFBE712ABFBFC" box="[1351,1436,1038,1063]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Paraluteva" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nuda">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A543AFBE71262FBFD" box="[1351,1365,1039,1062]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5419FBE612ABFBFC" box="[1380,1436,1038,1063]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nuda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described by
<bibRefCitation id="EFF7208AFFFE281A501DFBDA1503FB90" box="[352,564,1074,1099]" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" refId="ref4709" refString="Miller, N. C. E. (1950) New genera and species of Reduviidae (Rhynchota) from Southern Rhodesia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 120: 189 - 264." type="journal article">Miller (1950: 191)</bibRefCitation>
, albeit now placed in a different genus (
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5284FBDA1341FB90" box="[1017,1142,1074,1099]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">Paraluveta</emphasis>
Villiers). Due to this fact, retaining the spelling
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A50E9FBBE16FDFBB4" box="[404,458,1110,1135]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nude">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A50E9FBBE16FDFBB4" box="[404,458,1110,1135]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nude</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was considered but as a non-Latin word its use would need to be considered as an arbitrary combination of letters which, being an English word, is hardly applicable. Therefore, acting as the First Reviser under Art. 24.2.3, we consider it prudent to select
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A5249FB76145BFB6C" box="[820,876,1182,1207]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Paraluteva" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nuda">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5249FB76145BFB6C" box="[820,876,1182,1207]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nuda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the correct original spelling, rather than
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A5423FB7612A3FB6C" box="[1374,1428,1182,1207]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nude">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5423FB7612A3FB6C" box="[1374,1428,1182,1207]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nude</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and being a junior homonym, to replace
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A5316FB2C15F6FB00" box="[619,705,1218,1243]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Paraluteva" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nuda">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5316FB2C154EFB00" box="[619,633,1220,1243]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A53F4FB2A15F6FB00" box="[649,705,1218,1243]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nuda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with the new name
<taxonomicName id="4C6626F8FFFE281A52D0FB2C136BFB00" authorityName="Pansare &amp; Ghate &amp; Webb" authorityYear="2018" box="[941,1116,1219,1243]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="558" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="raviaspinosa" status="nom. nov.">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A52D0FB2C148CFB00" box="[941,955,1220,1243]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">P</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A52B6FB2C136BFB00" box="[971,1116,1220,1243]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">raviaspinosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2213C12FFFE281A5519FB2A13EDFB00" box="[1124,1242,1218,1243]" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">
<emphasis id="B9128169FFFE281A5519FB2A13EDFB00" bold="true" box="[1124,1242,1218,1243]" pageId="1" pageNumber="558">nom. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
Etymology: The new specific epithet is the concatenation of ravi, the first part of G. Ravichandrans surname, meaning sun in Hindi and aspinosa, Latin adjective meaning without a spine (to better emphasize the lack of a spine on the fore trochanter).
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