Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 60(1) March 2003 31 Case 3258 Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829 and Acmaeoderella Cobos, 1955 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Buprestis cylindrica Fabricius, 1775 as the type species of Acmaeodera C.L. Bellamy Plant Pest Diagnostics Lab., California Department ofFood & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, California 95832, U.S.A. (e-mail: [email protected]) M.G. Volkovitsh Zoological Institute, Russian Academy ofSciences, RU-199034 St. Petersburg, Russia (e-mail: [email protected]) Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 70.2 of the Code, is to conserve the current usage ofthe widely used buprestid (jewel beetle) generic names Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829 and Acmaeoderella Cobos, 1955 (family buprestidae) byacceptingthedesignation ofBuprestiscylindrica Fabricius, 1775 asthetype species of Acmaeodera. The type species of Acmaeodera is at present formally Buprestis taeniata Fabricius, 1787 (a junior subjective synonym of B. flavofasciata Filler & Mitterpacher, 1783). However, this designation (made in 1841) has been overlooked, and in modern usage B. cylindrica has universally been accepted as the type species oiAcmaeodera. Adoption ofB. taeniata as type species oiAcmaeodera would cause great nomenclatural instability as nearly 500 species would be affected by transfer and changes in generic and subgeneric names. Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Coleoptera; buprestidae; Acmaeodera; Acmaeoderella; Carininota; Acmaeodera cylindrica; Acmaeoderellaflavofasciata;jewel beetles. 1. Eschscholtz (1829, p. 9) introduced the generic name Acmaeodera for five nominal species ofbuprestid beetles (family buprestidae): Buprestis gibbosa Olivier, 1790, B. taeniata Fabricius, 1787 (p. 180), B. adspersula (as adspersa) Illiger, 1803, B. ornata Olivier, 1790, and B. cylindrica Fabricius, 1775 (p. 220). None was designated as the type species. Acmaeodera now includes 495 species found in all parts of the world except Australasia. 2. Duponchel (1841, p. 88) subsequently designated B. taeniata Fabricius, 1787 as the type species of Acmaeodera. Desmarest (1860, p. 41) indicated that he con- sidered B. taeniata to be the type species ofAcmaeodera. Starting from the work of Harold (1869, p. 117), B. taeniata has been listed as a junior subjective synonym of B. flavofasciata Filler & Mitterpacher, 1783 (p. 84) (currently Acmaeoderella flavofasciata). ) 32 Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 60(1) March 2003 3. Cobos (1955, p. 5) introduced the generic name Acmaeoderella and designated Buprestis discoidea Fabricius, 1787 (p. 184) as the type species. Later, Cobos (1958) revised the Acmaeoderini of Morocco and transferred 21 nominal species of Acmaeodera (including A. flavofasciata) to Acmaeoderella. Acmaeoderella currently includes 120 species, all restricted to the Palaearctic region. 4. Volkovitsh (1979, p. 339; see also the 1980 Enghsh translation, p. 82) invalidly designated B. cylindrica Fabricius, 1775 as the type species oiAcmaeodera, unaware of the much earlier designation of B. taeniata by Duponchel (see para. 2 above). In this work Volkovitsh pubhshed a classification for the Palaearctic species of both Acmaeodera and Acmaeoderella, erecting new subgenera and species groups. Buprestisflavofasciata ( = B. taeniata; see para. 2 above) was designated as the type species of the subgenus Carininota Volkovitsh, 1979 (p. 352) in Acmaeoderella. Carininota and Buprestisflavofasciata were placed on Official Lists in Opinion 2008 (BZN 59: 211-216, September 2002). After Cobos (1955, 1958) and Volkovitsh (1979), the names Acmaeoderella and Acmaeodera have been used in accord with the type designations (valid and invalid respectively) made by these authors and their meaningshavebeen universallyaccepted(see Bily, 1977, 1983; Miihle, 1980; Bellamy, 1985; Cobos, 1986; Holynski, 1993; Curletti, 1994; Kolibac, 2001; Volkovitsh, 2001). 5. Nomenclatural chaos would be caused ifDuponchel's type species designation were to be accepted and B. taeniata taken to be the type species ofAcmaeodera. The name Acmaeodera would be applied to the 120 exclusively Palaearctic species currently placed in Acmaeoderella and its six subgenera, and the taxonomic subgenus now called Carininota would become the nominotypical subgenus Acmaeodera {Acmaeodera)(seepara. 4aboveand Article44). Thetaxon nowcalled Acmaeoderella {Acmaeoderella), with the type species B. discoidea, would become one of the subgenera oiAcmaeodera with a new subgeneric name. The 495 species (in some 12 subgenera) currently in Acmaeodera would be placed in a genus with a name depending on taxonomic view, and the subgenus containing B. cylindrica Fabricius would need a new name. 6. To avoid the confusion that would result from over-turning the traditional stability ofthe genera Acmaeodera and Acmaeoderella, the type species designation of Duponchel (1841; see para. 2 above) should be set aside and the designation of Volkovitsh (1979; see para. 4 above) should be conserved. 7. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is accordingly asked: (1 to use itsplenarypower to set aside all fixations oftype species forthe nominal genus Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829 before that of Buprestis cylindrica Fabricius, 1775 by Volkovitsh (1979); (2) to placeontheOfficial List ofGenericNames in Zoology the followingnames: (a) Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829 (gender: feminine), type species Buprestis cylindrica Fabricius, 1775 by the fixation ofVolkovitsh (1979) as ruled in (1) above; (h) Acmaeoderella Cobos, 1955 (gender: feminine), type species by original designation Buprestis discoidea Fabricius, 1787; (3) to place on the Official List ofSpecificNames inZoology the followingnames: (a) cylindrica Fabricius, 1775, as published in the binomen Buprestis cylindrica (specific name ofthe type species oiAcmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829); Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 60(1) March 2003 33 (b) discoidea Fabricius, 1787, as published in the binomen Buprestis discoidea (specific name ofthe type species ofAcmaeoderelki Cobos, 1955). 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