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Neoalloceraea nom. nov., a Replacement Name forthe Subgenus Alloceraea Benick, 1934 (Coleoptera:Staphylinidae) Non Schulze, 1918Author(s): Hüseyin Özdikmen and Mustafa C. DarilmazSource: Entomological News, 119(4):431-432. 2008.Published By: The American Entomological SocietyDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3157/0013-872X-119.4.431URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.3157/0013-872X-119.4.431

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SCIENTIFIC NOTE

NEOALLOCERAEA NOM. NOV., A REPLACEMENT NAMEFOR THE SUBGENUS ALLOCERAEA BENICK, 1934

(COLEOPTERA: STAPHYLINIDAE)NON SCHULZE, 19181

Hüseyin Özdikmen2 and Mustafa C. Darilmaz2

In an effort to reduce the number of homonyms in Staphylinidae, we found agenus group name which had been previously published for another taxon, mak-ing it a junior homonym. In accordance with Article 60 of the International Codeof Zoological Nomenclature (1999), we propose a substitute name for this genusname.

Family StaphylinidaeGenus Plataraea Thomson, 1858

Subgenus Neoalloceraea nom. nov.

Alloceraea Benick, 1934. Ent. Blätter, 31, 164. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Preoccupied by Alloceraea Schulze, 1918. S.B. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin,1918, 62 (Acari: Ixodida).

Benick (1934) proposed the subgenus Alloceraea (type species, Atheta fioriiBernhauer, 1908 by original designation) and placed it in the rove beetle genusPlataraea Thomson, 1858 (Coleoptera: Staphyliniformia: Staphylinoidea:Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Athetini: Plataraea). Alloceraea is still used as avalid genus group in the Coleoptera (e.g. Löbl and Smetana, 2004). CurrentlyAlloceraea includes only one species, Alloceraea fiorii (Bernhauser, 1907) (for-merly Atheta fiorii Bernhauser, 1908) as the type, from Italy.

Unfortunately, the generic name, Alloceraea, was already preoccupied bySchulze (1918), who had described Alloceraea (type species Haemaphysalisinermis Birula, 1895) as a genus of tick (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodina:Amblyommidae: Rhipicephalinae). Currently, Alloceraea is considered a sub-genus of the speciose genus Haemaphysalis Koch, 1844.

Thus, the subgenus name Alloceraea Benick, 1934 is a junior homonym of thesubgenus name Alloceraea Schulze, 1918. Under the Zoological Code (ICZN,1999), it must be rejected and replaced, and so a new replacement name Neoal-loceraea nom. nov. for Alloceraea Benick, 1934 is herein proposed in the pres-ent work.

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______________________________1 Submitted on September 17, 2007. Accepted on October 18, 2007.2 Gazi University, Arts and Sciences Faculty, Department of Biology, 06500-Teknikokullar Ankara,Turkey. E-mails: ozdikmen@gazi.edu.tr, mdarilmaz@yahoo.com (corresponding author), re-spectively.

Mailed on November 12, 2008

Etymology: From the preexisting subgenus name Alloceraea.Distribution: Europe (Italy).

Summary of nomenclatural changes:Genus Plataraea Thomson, 1858Subgenus Plataraea (Neoalloceraea) nom. nov. = Plataraea (Alloceraea) Benick, 1934 (non Schulze, 1918)

Species Plataraea (Neoalloceraea) fiorii (Bernhauer, 1908) comb. nov.= Atheta fiorii Bernhauer, 1908= Plataraea (Alloceraea) fiorii (Bernhauer, 1908)

LITERATURE CITED

Benick, G. 1934. Revision der Untergattungen Plataraea Thoms. Und Aerostiba Bernh. (GattungAtheta, Staphyl.) Entomologische Blätter 31: 161-166.

ICZN. 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition. The InternationalTrust for Zoological Nomenclature, London.

Löbl, I. and A. Smetana. 2004. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 2. Apollo Books 942 pp.

Schulze, P. 1918. Ein Beitrag zur Zeckenfauna Mazedoniens. Sitzungsberichte der GesellschaftNaturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1918 (2): 61-66.

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