Opinions with the
following titles were published on 30 September 2002 in Volume 59, Part
3 of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Copies of these Opinions
can be obtained free of charge from the Executive Secretary, The
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, c/o The Natural
History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K. (e-mail: iczn@nhm.ac.uk).
OPINION 2010 (Case
3154)
Scymnus
splendidulus Stenius, 1952 (currently Nephus
(Sidis) splendidulus; Insecta, Coleoptera): neotype
retained as the name-bearing type
Keywords.
Nomenclature; taxonomy; Coleoptera; COCCINELLIDAE; Nephus;
Nephus (Sidis); Nephus (Sidis)
splendidulus; ladybird beetles.
Ruling
(1) Under the
plenary power the name-bearing type for Scymnus splendidulus
Stenius, 1952 is hereby confirmed as the neotype designated by Fursch
(1965) and registered as type number 2659 in the Zoological Museum,
Helsinki.
(2) The name splendidulus Stenius, 1952, as
published in the binomen Scymnus splendidulus and as defined by
the neotype confirmed in (1) above, is hereby placed on the Official
List of Specific Names in Zoology.
