) 228 Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 60(3) September 2003 OPINION 2049 (Case 3174) Pardosa C.L. Koch, 1847 and Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Arachnida, Araneae): usage conserved by the designation of Lycosa alacris C.L. Koch, 1833 as the type species of Pardosa Abstract. The Commission has ruled that Lycosa alacris C.L. Koch. 1833, as subsequently designated by Charitonov (1932). is fixed as the type species ofthe wolf spidergenus Pardosa C.L. Koch, 1847. The unidentifiable name Aranea chelata O.F. Miiller. 1764, at one time considered to be the oldest synonym of P. alacris and P. liigiihris. is suppressed. Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Araneae; lycosidae; Pardosa: Alopecosa; Par- dosa alacris: Pardosa liigiibris: Alopecosa striatipes: Aranea chelata: wolfspiders. Ruling Under the plenary power: (1 (a) all previous fixations of type species for the nominal genus Pardosa C.L. Koch, 1847 before that of Lycosa alacris C.L. Koch, 1833 by Charitonov (1932) are hereby set"aside; (b) the name chelata O.F. Miiller, 1764, as published in the binomen Aranea chelata, is hereby suppressed for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those ofthe Principle of Homonymy. (2) The following names are hereby placed on the Official List ofGeneric Names in Zoology; (a) Pardosa C.L. Koch, 1847 (gender; feminine), type species by subsequent designation by Charitonov (1932) as ruled in (l)(a) above Lycosa alacris C.L. Koch, 1833; (b) Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (gender: feminine), type species by monotypy Araneafahrilis Clerck, 1758. (3) The following names are hereby placed on the Official List ofSpecific Names in Zoology: (a) alacris C.L. Koch, 1833, as published in the binomen Lycosa alacris (specific name ofthe type species of Pardosa C.L. Koch, 1847); (b)fahrilis Clerck, 1758, as published in the binomen Araneafahrilis (specific name ofthe type species oi' Alopecosa Simon, 1885). (4) The name chelata O.F. Miiller. 1764, as published in the binomen Aranea chelata and as suppressed in 1(b) above, is hereby placed on the Official Index ofRejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology. History of Case 3174 An application to conserve the current usage of the generic names Pardosa C.L. Koch, 1847 and Alopecosa Simon, 1885 for two genera ofEuropean wolfspiders by fixing Lycosa alacris C.L. Koch, 1833 as the type species of Pardosa was received from Torbjorn Kronestedt {Department ofEntomology, S\yedish Museum ofNatural Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 60(3) September 2003 229 History, Stockholm. Sweden), Charles D. Dondale {Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre (ECORC). Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada) and Alexey A. Zyuzin (Abylai Khan Avenue, Almaty, Kazakhstan Republic) on 12 September 2000. After correspondence the case was published in BZN 59: 7-11 (March 2002). The title, abstract and keywords of the case were published on the Commission's website. A comment in support of this case was published in BZN 59: 203. Decision of the Commission On March 2003 the members of the Commission were invited to vote on the 1 proposal published in BZN 59: 9-10. At theclose ofthe voting period on 1 June 2003 the votes were as follows: 24 Commissioners voted FOR the proposals, no Commissioners voted AGAINST, no vote was received from Bohme. Original references The followingaretheoriginalreferencestothenamesplacedonOfficial ListsandanOfficial Index by the ruling given in the present Opinion: alacris. Lvcosa. C.L. Koch, 1833, Faunae inseclorum Gcnmmiae inilia: ocler Deutschlands Insecit'ii, Heft 120, pi. 17, fig. 18. Alopecosa Simon, 1885, E.xplorcifioii scieiilifique de la Tunisie. Zoologie. p. 10. chelata, Aranea, O.F. Miiller, 1764, Fauna Insectorum Fridrichsdalina, p. 94. fabrilis. Aranea, Clerck, 1758, Senska spindlar. . . AraneiSvecici. descriptionibus elfiguris. . . illustrati. p. 86. Pardosa C.L. Koch, 1847, Die Arachniden. vol. 14, p. 100. The following is the reference for the designation ofLvcosa alacris C.L. Koch, 1833 as the type species ofthe nominal genus Pardosa C.L. Koch, 1847; Charitonov, D.E. 1932. Izvestiya Biologicheskogo Nuuctmo-issledovatelskogo Insiituta i Biolog- ichcskoi Stantsiipri Pennskom Gosudarstvennom Universilete, 8: 21.