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Smicromyrme frankburgeri Schmid-Egger (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae), a replacement name for S. burgeri Schmid-Egger, 2021, preoccupied by S. burgeri Lelej, 2020
expand article infoChristian Schmid-Egger‡, Stefan Schmidt§
‡ Unaffiliated, Berlin, Germany
§ SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Munich, Germany

Corresponding author: Stefan Schmidt ( schmidt.s@snsb.de )

Academic editor: Thorleif Dörfel
© 2022 Christian Schmid-Egger, Stefan Schmidt.
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: 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
ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:463A17E4-4958-4C9F-8D14-B00303EFB9BC
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Abstract

Smicromyrme burgeri 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.

References

  • 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. https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.421.1
  • 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.
  • 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. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1062.70763
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