Abstract
Smicromyrmeburgeri Schmid-Egger, 2021, a junior homonym of S. (Eremotilla) burgeri Lelej, 2020, is replaced with Smicromyrme (Smicromyrme) frankburgeri Schmid-Egger, nom. nov.
Keywords: Velvet ants, homonymy, replacement name
In a recent publication (Schmid-Egger and Schmidt 2021) a new species of Mutillidae from Germany was described as Smicromyrme (Smicromyrme) burgeri Schmid-Egger. The name of the new species turned out to be preoccupied by Smicromyrme (Eremotilla) burgeri Lelej, 2020, a species described from Karnataka, India (Lelej 2020), only one year before the German species was described. Both species were named after the German entomologist Frank Burger.
In accordance with Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999), the junior homonym is replaced with a new name, Smicromyrme (Smicromyrme) frankburgeri Schmid-Egger, nom. nov.
Smicromyrme is a genus of velvet ants (Mutillidae) with currently approximately 270 described species from the Palearctic, Afrotropical, and Oriental regions (Pagliano et al. 2020). The Indian species, S.burgeri was described in the subgenus Eremotilla (Lelej 2020), whereas the German species belongs to the nominate subgenus.
Citation
Schmid-Egger C, Schmidt S (2022) Smicromyrme frankburgeri Schmid-Egger (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae), a replacement name for S. burgeri Schmid-Egger, 2021, preoccupied by S. burgeri Lelej, 2020. ZooKeys 1097: 133–134. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1097.83215
References
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4th Edn.). The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp. https://www.iczn.org/the-code/the-international-code-of-zoological-nomenclature/the-code-online/ [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Lelej A. (2020) Three new species of velvet ants from the tribe Smicromyrmini (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with unusual color syndrome. Far Eastern Entomologist = Dal’nevostochnyi Entomolog 421: 1–9. 10.25221/fee.421.1 [DOI] [Google Scholar]
- Pagliano G, Brothers D, Cambra R, Lelej A, Lo Cascio P, Matteini Palmerini M, Scaramozzino P, Williams K, Romano M. (2020) Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bollettino del Museo regionale di Scienze naturali di Torino 36: 5–425. [Google Scholar]
- Schmid-Egger C, Schmidt S. (2021) Unexpected diversity in Central European Vespoidea (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae, Myrmosidae, Sapygidae, Scoliidae, Tiphiidae, Thynnidae, Vespidae), with description of two species of Smicromyrme Thomson, 1870. ZooKeys 1062: 49–72. 10.3897/zookeys.1062.70763 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]