Zootaxa 2642: 68 (2010) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Correspondence ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2010 · Magnolia Press ISSN1175-5334(online edition) Kempella nom. nov., a replacement name for Kempina Manning, 1978 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae), preoccupied by Kempina Roewer, 1911, a junior synonym of Zaleptus Thorell, 1877 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae) MARTYN E. Y. LOW1 & SHANE T. AHYONG2 1Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, 6 Science Drive 2, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore. E-mail: [email protected] 2Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Manning (1978) proposed the generic name Kempina to accommodate three species of Indo-West Pacific stomatopod crustaceans: Squilla mikado Kemp & Chopra, 1921 (type species), Squilla stridulans Wood-Mason, in Alcock, 1894, and Squilla zanzibarica Chopra, 1939 (a junior synonym of Squilla mikado; see Ahyong, 2001). Kempina, however, was first proposed by Roewer (1911) for a genus of sclerosomatid spiders, with Kempina bicornigera Roewer, 1911, as its type species. Kempina Roewer, 1911, is currently regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Zaleptus Thorell, 1877, but is nonetheless an available name, rendering Kempina Manning, 1978, a junior homonym. Additionally, no potentially valid synonyms are available for Kempina Manning, 1978 (ICZN Art. 60.2). Thus, in accordance with Article 60.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), a replacement name for Kempina Manning, 1978, is required. Manning (1978: 39) dedicated the genus Kempina to “Stanley W. Kemp, whose basic studies on Indo-West-Pacific stomatopods laid the foundation for subsequent work on the group”. Thus, to reflect Manning’s (1978) original intent, we propose Kempellanom.nov. as a replacement name for Kempina Manning, 1978. Kempellanom.nov. is derived from the surname Kemp, and the Latin suffix -ella; gender: feminine. Kempella nom. nov. currently includes two valid species, Kempella mikado (Kemp & Chopra, 1921) comb. nov. and Kempella stridulans (Wood-Mason, in Alcock, 1894) comb.nov. References Ahyong, S.T. (2001) Revision of the Australian Stomatopoda. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 26, 1– 326. Alcock, A. (1894) Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer ‘Investigator,’ Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., late commanding.—Series II., No. 1. On the Results of Deep-sea Dredging during the Season of 1890–91 (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 13(77), 400–411. Chopra, B. (1939) Stomatopoda. The John Murray Expedition, 1933–34,Scientific Reports,6(3), 137–181. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4th Edition. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature and The Natural History Museum, London, xxix + 306 pp. Kemp, S.W. & Chopra, B. (1921) Notes on Stomatopoda. Records of the Indian Museum, 22(4), 297–311. Manning, R.B. (1978) Further observations on Oratosquilla, with accounts of two new genera and nine new species (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 272, 1–44. Roewer, C.F. (1911) Opiliones aus Britisch Indien und Sarawak. Archiv für Naturgeschicte, Jahrgang 77, Band 2, Heft 2, 160–188, pl. 4. Scudder, S.H. (1882) Nomenclator Zoologicus. An alphabetical list of all generic names that have been employed by naturalists for recent and fossil animals from the earliest times to the close of the year 1879. I. Supplemental List. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 19, 1–357. Thorell, T.T.T. (1877) Descrizione di alcune specie di Opilioni dell’Arcipelago Malese appartenenti al Museo Civico di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa, series 1, 9, 111–138. [Dated 1876, published 1877 (Scudder 1882)]. 68 Accepted by P. Castro: 15 Sep. 2010; published: 12 Oct. 2010