Bazboltonia nom. nov., a replacement name for the preoccupied Neotropical ant genus Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa 2022 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Bazboltonia nom. nov., a replacement name for the preoccupied Neotropical ant genus Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa 2022 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
复制标题
巴兹博尔托尼亚 nom.
DOI：
10.11646/zootaxa.5116.3.9
复制
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
FEITOSA, RODRIGO M.
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
CAMACHO, GABRIELA P.;FEITOSA, RODRIGO M.
在我们最近对蚂蚁亚科Ectatomminae （Camacho et al. 2022）的修订和重新分类中，我们提出了新的属名Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa，以适应从Heteroponera Mayr属转移来的单一物种B. microps Borgmeier 1957。当时，我们认为Boltonia是一个可用的名称，但最近的证据使我们得出结论，这是一个被占用的名称，我们的蚂蚁属需要一个替代名称。在昆虫学文献中，Boltonia这个名字被提出过两次。Pruvost（1919）为一种古双翅目昆虫创造了†Boltonia属，并将†Boltonia robusta作为其模式种。一年后，Handlirsch（1920）也命名了一个属†Boltonia，以一种茎双翅目“roachoid”，并指定†Gerablattina (Aphthoroblattina) sulcata Bolton 1911作为其模式种。目前，†Boltonia Handlirsch是†Necymylacris Bolton 1917 (Blattodea)（Durden, 1969）的初级同义词。Pruvost（1919）和Handlirsch（1920）都以古昆虫学家赫伯特·博尔顿的名字命名了他们的属。Strand（1929）认为，这两种双翅目化石的名称都是由Boltonia Koenig（1825）提出的，Boltonia Koenig在描述一个新的海鞘属（Tunicata）时提出了这个名称。Strand随后创造了†Boltopruvostia代替†Boltonia Pruvost，†Sulcoboltonia代替†Boltonia Handlirsch。然而，斯特兰德的假设是不正确的。柯尼格从未创造出一个名为波顿尼亚的属。他在讨论另一个分类单元时使用了Boltonia这个名字进行比较，但他指的是1816年的被膜动物Boltenia，他只是把这个名字拼错了。事实上，Boltenia Savigny是一个有效的当前名称（Shenkar et al., 2022）。我们最初判断，Strand为取代Boltonia Koenig 1825而创造的替代名称将使我们的新属名Boltonia可用，因为它是基于一个不存在的原始同音异义名称提出的。然而，由于†Boltonia Pruvost 1919的描述，需要Strand替换†Boltonia Handlirsch 1920的名称。因此，到1920年，有两个可用的名字拼写为Boltonia，因此，实际上有同音异义。此外，根据《国际动物命名规则》第10.6条，“一个名称一旦可用，无论其作为低级同义词、低级同音词、不合理的修订、不必要的替代名称或被禁止使用的名称[…]是无效的，都将保持其可用性”。就Boltonia而言，该名称的首次正式使用因此是有效的，并且出于所有命名目的†Boltonia Pruvost 1919必须被视为可用名称。因此，根据上述分类历史，并根据国际动物命名法第60条，我们在此建议将Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa 2022替换为新的名称Bazboltonia nom11 . 11。因此，本文提出了一个新的组合，目前包括在该属的单一物种：
In our recent revision and reclassification of the ant subfamily Ectatomminae (Camacho et al. 2022), we proposed the new genus name Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa to accommodate a single species, B. microps Borgmeier 1957, transferred from the genus Heteroponera Mayr. At that time, we believed Boltonia to be an available name, but recent evidence led us to conclude that this is a preoccupied name and that our ant genus needs a replacement name. The name Boltonia was proposed twice in the entomological literature. Pruvost (1919) created the genus† Boltonia for a paleodictyopteran insect, with† Boltonia robusta as its type species. One year later, Handlirsch (1920) also named a genus† Boltonia, for a stem-dictyoptera “roachoid”, designating† Gerablattina (Aphthoroblattina) sulcata Bolton 1911 as its type species. Currently,† Boltonia Handlirsch is a junior synonym of† Necymylacris Bolton 1917 (Blattodea)(Durden, 1969). Both Pruvost (1919) and Handlirsch (1920) named their genera after the paleoentomologist Herbert Bolton. Strand (1929) considered that the name applied for both dictyopteran fossils was preoccupied by Boltonia Koenig 1825, who apparently proposed the name when describing a new genus of ascidians (Tunicata). Strand then created the replacement names† Boltopruvostia for† Boltonia Pruvost and† Sulcoboltonia for† Boltonia Handlirsch. Nevertheless, Strand’s assumption was incorrect. Koenig never created a genus named Boltonia. He used the name Boltonia for comparison in the discussion of another taxon, but he was referring to the tunicate Boltenia Savigny 1816, and simply misspelled the name. In fact, Boltenia Savigny is a valid current name (Shenkar et al., 2022). We initially judged that the substitute name created by Strand to replace Boltonia Koenig 1825 would render our new genus name Boltonia available, since it was proposed based on a nonexistent original homonymy. However, Strand’s replacement name for† Boltonia Handlirsch 1920 is needed, because of the description of† Boltonia Pruvost 1919. Thus, by 1920 there were two available names with the spelling Boltonia and, consequently, there was actual homonymy. In addition, according to Article 10.6 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature,“A name once available remains so irrespective of its invalidity as a junior synonym, a junior homonym, an unjustified emendation, an unnecessary substitute name, or a suppressed name […]”. In the case of Boltonia, the first formal use of the name is therefore valid and for all nomenclatural purposes† Boltonia Pruvost 1919 must be considered an available name. Thus, based on the aforementioned taxonomic history and in accordance with the article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, we here propose the new replacement name Bazboltonia nom. nov. for Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa 2022. Accordingly, a new combination is herein proposed for the single species currently included in the genus: