On the nomenclatural status of type genera in Coleoptera (Insecta)

• Published in: ZooKeys Vol. 1194; pp. 1 - 981
• Main Authors: Bouchard, Patrice, Bousquet, Yves, Davies, Anthony E, Cai, Chenyang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 01-01-2024
• Subjects: Buprestis; Carabus; Catalogue; Cenozoic; Chrysomela; Classification; Coleoptera; Dermestes; Ditylus; Donacia; Endomychus; Genera; Hister; Insects; Mesozoic; Names; Nomenclature; Paleozoic; Phanaeus; Phloeophagus; Pinotus; Prionus; Scarabaeus; Silpha; Species; Sphaeridium; Systematics; Taxonomy; World; Zoology; nomenclature; type species; Beetles; type genus; publication dates; family-group name; classification; catalogue
• ISSN: 1313-2989; 1313-2970
• DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440

More than 4700 nominal family-group names (including names for fossils and ichnotaxa) are nomenclaturally available in the order Coleoptera. Since each family-group name is based on the concept of its type genus, we argue that the stability of names used for the classification of beetles depends on accurate nomenclatural data for each type genus. Following a review of taxonomic literature, with a focus on works that potentially contain type species designations, we provide a synthesis of nomenclatural data associated with the type genus of each nomenclaturally available family-group name in Coleoptera. For each type genus the author(s), year of publication, and page number are given as well as its current status (i.e., whether treated as valid or not) and current classification. Information about the type species of each type genus and the type species fixation (i.e., fixed originally or subsequently, and if subsequently, by whom) is also given. The original spelling of the family-group name that is based on each type genus is included, with its author(s), year, and stem. We append a list of nomenclaturally available family-group names presented in a classification scheme. Because of the importance of the Principle of Priority in zoological nomenclature, we provide information on the date of publication of the references cited in this work, when known. Several nomenclatural issues emerged during the course of this work. We therefore appeal to the community of coleopterists to submit applications to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (henceforth "Commission") in order to permanently resolve some of the problems outlined here. The following changes of authorship for type genera are implemented here (these changes do not affect the concept of each type genus): CHRYSOMELIDAE:
Crotch, 1870 (previously credited to "Clavareau, 1913"); CICINDELIDAE:
W.S. MacLeay, 1825 (previously credited to "Dejean, 1825"); COCCINELLIDAE:
Reiche, 1848 (previously credited to "Mulsant, 1850"); CURCULIONIDAE:
Boisduval, 1835 (previously credited to "Guérin-Méneville, 1838"); ELATERIDAE:
Gemminger, 1869 (previously credited to "Bonvouloir, 1871"); EUCNEMIDAE:
Gemminger, 1869 (previously credited to "Bonvouloir, 1871"),
Gemminger, 1869 (previously credited to "Bonvouloir, 1871"); LUCANIDAE:
Hellwig, 1791 (previously credited to "Hellwig, 1792"); PASSALIDAE:
Harold, 1868 (previously credited to "Kaup, 1869"),
Harold, 1868 (previously credited to "Kaup, 1869"),
Harold, 1868 (previously credited to "Kaup, 1869"),
Harold, 1868 (previously credited to "Kaup, 1869"),
Harold, 1868 (previously credited to "Kaup, 1869"),
Harold, 1868 (previously credited to "Kaup, 1869"); PTINIDAE:
Leach, 1819 (previously credited to "Curtis, 1828"); PYROCHROIDAE:
Germar, 1818 (previously credited to "Germar, 1825"); SCARABAEIDAE:
Dejean, 1833 (previously "Brullé, 1838"). The following changes of type species were implemented following the discovery of older type species fixations (these changes do not pose a threat to nomenclatural stability): BOLBOCERATIDAE:
Erichson, 1841 for
Boucomont, 1911 (previously
Mulsant, 1842); BUPRESTIDAE:
Hope, 1843 for
Saunders, 1868 (previously
Hope, 1846),
Laporte & Gory, 1837 for
Laporte & Gory, 1837 (previously
Boisduval, 1835); CARABIDAE:
Fabricius, 1801 for
Bonelli, 1810 (previously
Herbst, 1784 sensu Fabricius, 1792); CERAMBYCIDAE:
Fabricius, 1792 for
Audinet-Serville, 1832 (previously
Fabricius, 1781); CHRYSOMELIDAE:
Fabricius, 1798 for
Dejean, 1821 (previously
Fabricius, 1801),
Latreille, 1807 for
Dalman, 1824 (previously
Fabricius, 1787),
Paykull, 1799 for
Latreille, 1829 (previously
Linnaeus, 1758); COCCINELLIDAE:
Herbst, 1783 for
Kugelann, 1798 (previously
Herbst, 1783); CRYPTOPHAGIDAE:
G.-A. Olivier, 1790 for
Heer, 1841 (previously
Fallén, 1802),
Marsham, 1802 for
Stephens, 1829 (previously
Paykull, 1798); CURCULIONIDAE:
Herbst, 1794 for
Erichson, 1836 (previously
Gyllenhal, 1813); DERMESTIDAE:
Fabricius, 1787 for
Latreille, 1802 (previously
Linnaeus, 1758); ELATERIDAE:
Fabricius, 1777 for
Eschscholtz, 1829 (previously
Eschscholtz, 1829); ENDOMYCHIDAE:
Chevrolat, 1835 for
Chevrolat, 1836 (previously
Guérin-Méneville, 1834); EROTYLIDAE:
Fabricius, 1787 for
Latreille, 1797 (previously
Thunberg, 1781); EUCNEMIDAE:
Perroud & Montrouzier, 1865 for
Gemminger, 1869 (previously
Bonvouloir, 1871); GLAPHYRIDAE:
Fabricius, 1792 for
Latreille, 1802 (previously
Linnaeus, 1758); HISTERIDAE:
Forster, 1771 for
Leach, 1817 (previously
Moll, 1784); LAMPYRIDAE:
E. Olivier, 1900 for
E. Olivier, 1900 (previously
E. Olivier, 1900); LUCANIDAE:
Fabricius, 1787 for
Westwood, 1855 (previously
Westwood, 1855); MELANDRYIDAE:
G.-A. Olivier, 1812 for
G.-A. Olivier, 1812 (previously
G.-A. Olivier, 1812); MELYRIDAE:
Fabricius, 1787 for
Stephens, 1830 (previously
Linnaeus, 1767); NITIDULIDAE:
Fabricius, 1787 for
Kugelann, 1794 (previously
Herbst, 1792); OEDEMERIDAE:
Fabricius, 1787 for
Fischer, 1817 (previously
Fischer, 1817 [sic]); PHALACRIDAE:
Fabricius, 1792 for
Erichson, 1845 (previously
Fabricius, 1792); RHIPICERIDAE:
Knoch, 1801 for
Knoch, 1801 (previously
Knoch, 1801); SCARABAEIDAE:
G.-A. Olivier, 1792 for
Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (previously
Weber, 1801);
W. Kirby, 1825 for
W. Kirby, 1825 (previously
W. Kirby, 1825);
Illiger, 1803 for
Dejean, 1821 (previously
Illiger, 1803); STAPHYLINIDAE:
Linnaeus, 1758 for
Stephens, 1829 (previously
Fabricius, 1792); ZOPHERIDAE:
Linnaeus, 1767 for
Latreille, 1797 (previously
DeGeer, 1775). The discovery of type species fixations that are older than those currently accepted pose a threat to nomenclatural stability (an application to the Commission is necessary to address each problem): CANTHARIDAE:
Latreille, 1805,
Kiesenwetter, 1852; CARABIDAE:
Erichson, 1837,
Bonelli, 1810,
Latreille, 1802,
Latreille, 1802,
Solier, 1834,
Clairville, 1806; CERAMBYCIDAE:
Latreille, 1816,
Fabricius, 1775,
Audinet-Serville, 1834,
Dalman, 1817,
Linnaeus, 1758,
Latreille, 1829,
Haldeman, 1847; CHRYSOMELIDAE:
Thunberg, 1815,
Stephens, 1831,
Knoch, 1801,
Chevrolat, 1836,
Chevrolat, 1836,
Suffrian, 1847; COLONIDAE:
Herbst, 1797; CURCULIONIDAE:
Erichson, 1836,
Germar, 1817; ELATERIDAE:
Latreille, 1829,
Eschscholtz, 1829; ENDOMYCHIDAE:
Germar, 1843,
Latreille, 1829; GLAPHYRIDAE:
Eschscholtz, 1818; HISTERIDAE:
Paykull, 1811,
Eschscholtz, 1829; LEIODIDAE:
Panzer, 1796,
Sharp, 1878,
Latreille, 1797; LYCIDAE:
Laporte, 1838,
Latreille, 1829; MELOIDAE:
Dejean, 1834; NITIDULIDAE:
Herbst, 1792; SCARABAEIDAE:
Schönherr, 1817,
Eschscholtz, 1818,
Dejean, 1821,
Burmeister, 1842,
Schönherr, 1817,
Dejean, 1821,
Burmeister, 1842,
Hope, 1837; STAPHYLINIDAE:
Aubé, 1833,
Heer, 1840,
Linnaeus, 1758; TENEBRIONIDAE:
Illiger, 1798,
Guérin-Méneville, 1827. Type species are fixed for the following nominal genera: ANTHRIBIDAE:
Labram & Imhoff, 1840 for
Labram & Imhoff, 1840; CARABIDAE:
Dejean, 1828 for
J.L. LeConte, 1853; CERAMBYCIDAE:
Boisduval, 1835 for
Boisduval, 1835; CHRYSOMELIDAE:
Pic, 1913 for
Pic, 1916,
Linnaeus, 1758 for
Gistel, 1856,
Erichson, 1847 for
Erichson, 1847,
Guérin-Méneville, 1840 for
Guérin- Méneville, 1840; CLERIDAE:
Linnaeus, 1758 for
Gistel, 1856; CORYLOPHIDAE:
J.L. LeConte, 1852 for
A. Matthews, 1885; CURCULIONIDAE:
Chevrolat, 1878 for
Chevrolat, 1878;
Casey, 1922 for
Casey, 1922; ELATERIDAE:
Candèze, 1865 for
Champion, 1896; PHYCOSECIDAE:
Pascoe, 1875 for
Pascoe, 1875; PTILODACTYLIDAE:
Guérin-Méneville, 1849 for
Guérin-Méneville, 1849,
Klug, 1837 for
Klug, 1837; PTINIDAE:
Chevrolat, 1832 for
Gistel, 1856; SCARABAEIDAE:
Erichson, 1840 for
Erichson, 1840,
Burmeister, 1855 for
Erichson, 1847,
Erichson, 1847 for
Erichson, 1847,
Burmeister, 1855 for
Burmeister, 1855. New replacement name: CERAMBYCIDAE:
Bouchard & Bousquet,
for
Harold, 1879. New status: CARABIDAE: KRYZHANOVSKIANINI Deuve, 2020,
is given the rank of tribe instead of subfamily since our classification uses the rank of subfamily for PAUSSINAE rather than family rank; CERAMBYCIDAE:
Pascoe, 1866,
is used as valid over
Marinoni, 1977,
Blanchard, 1851,
is used as valid over
Monné, 2012; CURCULIONIDAE:
Schönherr, 1835,
is used as valid over the unnecessary new replacement name
Lacordaire, 1863; EUCNEMIDAE:
Lea, 1919,
is used as valid instead of
Gemminger, 1869, which is a junior homonym. Details regarding additional nomenclatural issues that still need to be resolved are included in the entry for each of these type genera: BOSTRICHIDAE:
Fabricius, 1792; BRENTIDAE:
Dejean, 1834; BUPRESTIDAE:
Dejean, 1833; CANTHARIDAE:
Hentz, 1830,
Schäffer, 1766; CARABIDAE:
Bonelli, 1810,
Dejean, 1821,
Guérin-Méneville, 1847,
D.H. Schneider, 1791,
Westwood, 1847,
Chaudoir, 1850,
Westwood, 1860,
Clairville, 1806; CERAMBYCIDAE:
J. Thomson, 1864,
Audinet-Serville, 1834,
Gistel, 1856,
Newman, 1842;
Dejean, 1835,
J. Thomson, 1860,
Laporte, 1840,
Stephens, 1829,
Erichson, 1842; CHRYSOMELIDAE:
Schilsky, 1905,
Hope, 1841,
Chapuis, 1874;
Chevrolat, 1836;
Boheman, 1854,
Hope, 1841; CLERIDAE:
Schäffer, 1777; COCCINELLIDAE:
Chevrolat, 1836,
Mulsant, 1846,
L. Redtenbacher, 1843; CURCULIONIDAE:
Schönherr, 1837,
Ritsema, 1885,
Leach, 1819,
Kirsch, 1869,
Schönherr, 1833,
Erichson, 1836; DYTISCIDAE:
Sharp, 1882,
Régimbart, 1879; EUCNEMIDAE:
Latreille, 1834; HYBOSORIDAE:
A. White, 1842; HYDROPHILIDAE:
Erichson, 1837; LAMPYRIDAE:
Laporte, 1833; LEIODIDAE:
Hellwig, 1795; LUCANIDAE:
Hope, 1838; LYCIDAE:
Guérin-Méneville, 1830,
Kazantsev, 2000; MELOIDAE:
Fabricius, 1775; NITIDULIDAE:
Stephens, 1829; PTILODACTYLIDAE:
Laporte, 1838; SCARABAEIDAE:
Arrow, 1940,
Burmeister, 1844,
Reitter, 1892,
Gory & Percheron, 1833,
Hope, 1837,
Burmeister, 1842; STAPHYLINIDAE:
Fauvel, 1871,
Gravenhorst, 1802; STENOTRACHELIDAE:
Berthold, 1827; TENEBRIONIDAE:
Latreille, 1828,
Dejean, 1834,
Fabricius, 1775. First Reviser actions deciding the correct original spelling: CARABIDAE:
Marcilhac, 1993 (not
); CERAMBYCIDAE:
Gistel, 1856 (not
), EVODININI Zamoroka, 2022 (not EVODINIINI); CHRYSOMELIDAE:
Jekel, 1855 (not