Emarginoptyx Ballantyne (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae), a replacement name for the firefly genus Emarginata Ballantyne, 2019

Authors

Lesley Ballantyne, Charles Sturt UniversityFollow
Oliver Keller, University of FloridaFollow

Date of this Version

6-25-2021

Citation

Ballantyne L, Keller O. 2021. Emarginoptyx Ballantyne (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae), a replacement name for the firefly genus Emarginata Ballantyne, 2019. Insecta Mundi 0875: 1–2.

Comments

Ballantyne L, Keller O. 2021. Emarginoptyx Ballantyne (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae), a replacement name for the firefly genus Emarginata Ballantyne, 2019. Insecta Mundi 0875: 1–2.

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Abstract

Emarginata Ballantyne, 2019 (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae), is found to be a junior homonym of the bird genus Emarginata Shelley, 1896 (Avis: Passeriformes: Muscicapidae). The new replacement name Emarginoptyx Ballantyne is provided for the SE Asian genus Emarginata Ballantyne, leading to one new combination, Emarginoptyx trilucida (Jeng, Yang and Lai, 2003).

It has come to our attention that the name Emarginata Ballantyne in Ballantyne et al. (2019) for Emarginata trilucida (Jeng, Yang and Lai, 2003), is preoccupied by Emarginata Shelley, a genus of birds from southern Africa (Shelley 1896).