Alienus Galileo & Martins 2010, nom. nov.
- 1. Museu Anchieta de Ciências Naturais, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- 2. Via Belvedere 8 / d, I- 20881 Bernareggio (MB), Italy.
- 3. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Description
Hosticus nom. nov. pro Alienus Galileo & Martins, 2010 (nec Handlirsch, 1906; nec Bridwell, 1919)
(Figs. 5–8)
Alienus Galileo & Martins, 2010: 388; Monné, 2012: 26 (cat.); 2020: 406 (cat.).
Type species. Alienus curiosus Galileo & Martins, 2010, by monotypy.
Etymology. Latin, “hosticus”, meaning “hostile”; adjective used here as a noun in the nominative singular. It is a synonym of the Latin adjective “alienus” meaning “alien”, “foreigner.” Masculine gender.
Remarks. Handlirsch (1906: 392) described Alienus, an insect fossil genus currently in Blattinopsidae (Protorthoptera) (Hörnschemeyer & Stapf 2001). Some years later, Bridwell (1919: 117) established a junior homonym, Alienus, as a new genus in Hymenoptera (in the newly established family Alienidae of Proctotrupoidea). Noticing the homonymy, Strand (1929: 25) established Obenbergerella as a new replacement name for Alienus Bridwell (currentely in the family Chrysididae). A third homonym was more recently erected by Galileo & Martins (2010: 388), Alienus, for a genus in Coleoptera (Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Eligmodermini) and their new species Alienus curiosus. Here we are proposing Hosticus as a new replacement name for Alienus Galileo & Martins to resolve the triple homonym with Alienus Handlirsch and Alienus Bridwell.
Alienus curiosus remains known only from the holotype female from Brazil (Espírito Santo), deposited in the MZSP collection. We take the opportunity to better illustrate the holotype (Figs. 5–8).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Genus
- Alienus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Galileo & Martins
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alienus Galileo, 2010 sec. Galileo, Rosa & Santos-Silva, 2020
References
- Galileo, M. H. M. & Martins, U. R. (2010) Novos taxons de Cerambycinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) da America do Sul. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 50 (24), 385 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / s 0031 - 10492009000900001
- Handlirsch, A. (1906 - 1908) Die fossilen insekten und die phylogenie der rezenten formen. Ein Handbuch fur palaontologen und zoologen. Vol. 1 (3). Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, vi + 672 pp., 36 pls.
- Bridwell, J. C. (1919) Miscellaneous notes on Hymenoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 4 (1), 109 - 165. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 16142
- Monne, M. A. (2012) Catalogue of the type-species of the genera of the Cerambycidae, Disteniidae, Oxypeltidae and Vesperidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Zootaxa, 3213 (1), 1 - 183. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3213.1.1
- Hornschemeyer T. & Stapf H. (2001) Review of Blattinopsidae (Protorthoptera) with description of new species from the Lower Permian of Niedermoschel (Germany). Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, 221 (1), 81 - 109.
- Strand, E. (1929) Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes. Latvijas Universitates Raksti-Acta Universitatis Latviensis, 20, 3 - 29.