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Issue: Vol. 4438 No. 3: 22 Jun. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.11
Page range: 597–598
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Libelloidini, new name for an old tribe (Neuroptera Ascalaphidae)

Dipartimento di Agraria, sezione di Entomologia, Università degli Studi, via Enrico De Nicola, 07100 Sassari SS (Italia). ISE-CNR (Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) Traversa la Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, 07100 Li Punti SS (Italia).
ISE-CNR (Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) Traversa la Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, 07100 Li Punti SS (Italia).
Neuroptera Ascalaphidae

Abstract

Almost a half century ago, Tjeder (1972) stated that the genus Ascalaphus had been interpreted in a sense other than that defined by its type species (see Pantaleoni and Loru 2018). So, the generic name Ascalaphus Fabricius, 1775, became the senior synonym of Helicomitus McLachlan, 1871, and the genus Libelloides, Schäffer, 1763, was reserved for the Palearctic diurnal coloured owlflies, which until then were considered to belong to the genus Ascalaphus. Even though Tjeder’s proposition produced a dramatic change in a long-term “prevailing usage”, it was immediately and universally accepted as necessary. However, surprisingly, this change was never followed by the consequent necessary nomenclatural changes at the family-group name level.

 

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