New substitute name for the genus Poliocoris Slater, 1994 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Rhyparochromidae)

Dao-Wei Zhang; Jing Chen

doi:10.3897/zookeys.478.9063

Short Communication

New substitute name for the genus Poliocoris Slater, 1994 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Rhyparochromidae)

Dao-Wei Zhang^‡, Jing Chen^§

‡ Zunyi Normal College, Zunyi, China

§ Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, China

Corresponding author: Dao-Wei Zhang ( zhangdaowei2014@sina.com )

Academic editor: Thomas Henry

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Zhang D-W, Chen J (2015) New substitute name for the genus Poliocoris Slater, 1994 (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Rhyparochromidae). ZooKeys 478: 147-148. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.478.9063

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:40A80A09-7C50-4C47-A360-D1DFA3DA0599

Abstract

Neopoliocoris nom. n., a new substitute name is proposed for Poliocoris Slater, 1994 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae), preoccupied by Poliocoris Kirkaldy, 1910 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). A new combination, Neopoliocoris umbrosus (Slater, 1994), comb. n. is proposed for Poliocoris umbrosus Slater, 1994.

Keywords

Hemiptera , Heteroptera , bugs, homonym, replacement name

Introduction

The purpose of the present paper is to provide a new substitute name for a preoccupied Rhyparochromid name in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999). The bug genus Poliocoris of the family Rhyparochromidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) was established by Slater (1994) for the species Poliocoris umbrosus Slater, 1994 from South Africa. We have discovered that the genus name Poliocoris is preoccupied and was initially introduced by Kirkaldy (1910) for a stink bug genus of the family Pentatomidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with Poliocoris amnesis Kirkaldy, 1910 as its type species from the USA (Florissant). According to Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, we propose the new substitute name Neopoliocoris nom. n. for Poliocoris Slater, 1994. The resulting nomenclatural changes are summarized below.

Nomenclatural changes

Genus Neopoliocoris nom. n.

Poliocoris Slater 1994: 120 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae). Preoccupied by Poliocoris Kirkaldy 1910: 130 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae).

Type species

Poliocoris umbrosus Slater, 1994.

Distribution

South Africa.

Etymology

From the preexisting name Poliocoris and the prefix “Neo-” from the Greek “neos”, meaning new; gender masculine.

Neopoliocoris umbrosus (Slater, 1994), comb. n.

Poliocoris umbrosus, Slater 1994: 120.

Acknowledgments

We thank Dr Thomas Henry (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA, Washington DC, USA) and an anonymous referee for reading the manuscript and making some suggestions. This work was supported by the Guizhou Province Natural Science Foundation ([2014]2014, [2013]2307).

References

ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, fourth Edition. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.

Kirkaldy GW (1910) Three new Hemiptera-Heteroptera from the Miocene of Colorado. Entomological News 21: 129–131.

Slater JA (1994) A new genus and three new species of Lygaeidae (Hemiptera) from South Africa, with additional records for the region. African Entomology 2: 117–122.