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Lin M-Y, Lingafelter SW (2023) A hitherto overlooked article by Gressitt in 1941 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae). ZooKeys 1168: 179-192. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1168.107021
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Date of publication, homonym, nomenclature, synonym, West China Border Research Society
The first author changed her job from the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China) to Mianyang Normal University (Mianyang, Sichuan, China) in 2022. In her preparations to study the longhorned woodboring beetle (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) fauna of Sichuan Province, Mr Yu-Tang Wang introduced the book series “Journal of the West China Border Research Society, Unabridged Photocopied Edition” to her. One article on the taxonomy of Cerambycidae written by J. Linsley
We follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Recommendation 21F (
We follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (
Glossary: noun phrase, n.
primary homonym
Each of two or more identical specific or subspecific names established for different nominal taxa and originally combined with the same generic name [Art. 57.2]. For variant spellings deemed to be identical see Article 58.
objective synonym
Each of two or more synonyms that denote nominal taxa with the same name-bearing type, or (in the cases of family-group and genus-group taxa) that denote nominal taxa with name-bearing types whose own names are themselves objectively synonymous.
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Except as provided in Article 3, the date to be adopted as the date of publication of a work and of a contained name or nomenclatural act is to be determined in accordance with the following provisions.
21.2. Date specified
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21.3.2. the last day of the year when only the year is specified or demonstrated.
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Recommendation 21F. Correction of date. If an author of a new scientific name or other nomenclatural act is aware that the date specified in the work containing it is incorrect or incomplete, he or she should publish a correction in some suitable manner.
32.3. Preservation of correct original spelling
The correct original spelling of a name is to be preserved unaltered, except where it is mandatory to change the suffix or the gender ending under Article 34 (for treatment of emendations and incorrect subsequent spellings see Articles 32.5, 33.2, 33.3, 33.4).
32.4. Status of incorrect original spellings
An original spelling is an “incorrect original spelling” if it must be corrected as required in Article 32.5. An incorrect original spelling has no separate availability and cannot enter into homonymy or be used as a substitute name.
32.5. Spellings that must be corrected (incorrect original spellings)
32.5.1. If there is in the original publication itself, without recourse to any external source of information, clear evidence of an inadvertent error, such as a lapsus calami or a copyist’s or printer’s error, it must be corrected. Incorrect transliteration or latinization, or use of an inappropriate connecting vowel, are not to be considered inadvertent errors.
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53.3. Homonyms in the species group
Two or more available species-group names having the same spelling are homonyms if they were originally established in combination with the same generic name (primary homonymy), or when they are subsequently published in combination with the same generic name (secondary homonymy) (for species-group names combined with homonymous generic names see Article 57.8.1).
57.2. Primary homonyms
Identical species-group names established for different nominal taxa when originally combined with the same generic name (see also Articles 11.9.3.2 and 57.8.1) are primary homonyms [Art. 53.3] and the junior name is permanently invalid (but see Article 23.9.5).
Scans of text and figures from
In addition, the following abbreviations were used: ICZN = International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; TD = type depository; TL = type locality.
The publication date of Gressitt’s “Chinese longicorn beetles of the tribe Tetraopini (Coleoptera)” is 1941. Although the front page indicates “Volume XII / Series B, Natural Sciences / 1940”, it was not published in 1940 as planned.
The three new taxa published by
The Unabridged, Photocopied Edition of the “Journal of the West China Border Research Society” was published in 2014 but has no taxonomic significance as it does not include any new taxa, new homonyms, or new synonyms (
The same can be said of Gressitt’s “New longicorn beetles from China” series of publications. For example, “New longicorn beetles from China: VIII (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)” (
Chreonoma rigida
Gressitt, 1941: 141, fig. 1. TL China: Sichuan. TD
Chreonoma rigida
Gressitt, 1942c: 6. TL China: Sichuan. TD
Chreonoma rigida:
Bacchisa (Bacchisa) rigida:
Bacchisa rigida:
Holotype
, female (Fig.
China Sichuan: 1 female, Emeishan, Baoguosi, 28 July 1957, leg. Zong-Yuan Wang (
China: Sichuan.
Chreonoma rigida Gressitt, 1942c is junior homonym and objective synonym of Chreonoma rigida Gressitt, 1941. The Zhejiang record was firstly reported by
Chreonoma sikang
Gressitt, 1941: 142. TL China: Sichuan (Sikang). TD
Chreonoma sikanga
Gressitt, 1942c: 6. TL China: Sichuan (Sikang). TD
Astathes sikanga:
Astathes (Tetraophthalmus) sikanga:
Tetraophthalmus sikanga:
Holotype
, female (Fig.
China: Sichuan.
Figs
Anastathes parva
Gressitt, 1935: 193. TL China: Taiwan. TD
Anastathes parva parva:
Anastathes parva:
Anastathes parvus
[sic]:
Holotype
, male (Fig.
China: Taiwan.
Anastathes parva hainana
Gressitt, 1941:143, fig. 3. TL China: Hainan. TD
Anastathes parva hainana
Gressitt, 1942c: 7. TL China: Hainan. TD
Anastathes parva hainana:
Anastathes parva:
Anastathes parva
m. hainana:
Anastathes parvus
[sic]:
China Hunan: 1 male, Yizhang, Mangshan, Tiantaishan, 15 July 2008, leg. Hong-Bin Liang (
Descriptions 3, 4 Tetraophthalmus sikang (Gressitt, 1941) = Chreonoma sikang Gressitt, 1941 3a, b senior homonym, original description by
China: Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi. Vietnam.
Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1942c is junior homonym and objective synonym of Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941. The holotype of Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941 is a female from Tai-pin-ts’uen, Loi Mother Mountain, Hainan Island, 1935.V.14, leg. F.K. To (
All authors have treated
In addition to the three taxa whose publication date is now known to have been one year earlier,
The “Journal of the West China Border Research Society” surely was an official publication. Some articles from this journal were indexed by the Zoological Record, although the
Habitus 7, 8 Bacchisa rigida (Gressitt, 1941) = Chreonoma rigida Gressitt, 1941 7 holotype, female, from Sichuan 8 female, from Sichuan 9 Tetraophthalmus sikang (Gressitt, 1941) = Chreonoma sikang Gressitt, 1941, holotype, female, from Sichuan 10 Anastathes parva parva Gressitt, 1935, holotype, male, from Taiwan Island, photographed by Eugenio Nearns 11 Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941, female, from Hainan Island a dorsal view b lateral view c ventral view d labels.
On the distribution of the journal,
Gressitt did not receive the publication notification of the Tetraopini synopsis before he submitted his “New longicorn beetles from China: X” (
We suspect that the other taxonomic paper in the same volume of the Journal of the West China Border Research Society, on Cercopidae (
Our cordial thanks are due to Yu-Tang Wang (Mianyang, Sichuan, China) for offering the digital copy of the important article studied in this paper, to Eugenio Nearns (USDA APHIS, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA) for providing photographs of the holotype of Anastathes parva parva Gressitt, 1935, to Yan-Yan Zhou and Xing-Ke Yang (Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China) for checking volumes 21 and 22 of the Lingnan Science Journal. We thank Kui-Yan Zhang (
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
No ethical statement was reported.
This research was supported by the GDAS Special Project of Science and Technology Development (no. 2020GDASYL-20200102021), the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China (2019HJ2096001006 and HX2022123), and partly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China NSFC programs 31472029.
Mei‐Ying Lin: Conceptualization (lead); data curation (lead); formal analysis (equal); funding acquisition (equal); methodology (lead); project administration (equal); resources (lead); writing – original draft (lead); writing – review and editing (equal). Steven W. Lingafelter: Data curation (supporting); project administration (supporting); writing – review and editing (equal).
Mei-Ying Lin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9219-724X
Steven W. Lingafelter https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6294-4259
All of the data that support the findings of this study are available in the main text or Supplementary Information.
Chinese longicorn beetles of the tribe Tetraopini (Coleoptera)
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Explanation note: Gressitt, J. L. 1941. Chinese longicorn beetles of the tribe Tetraopini (Coleoptera). Journal of the West China Border Research Society, 12B [1940]: 134–147. This article were overlooked by all researchers, so we share the pdf.