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A hitherto overlooked article by Gressitt in 1941
(Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)
Mei-Ying Lin1, Steven W. Lingafelter2
1 Engineering Research Center for Forest and Grassland Disaster Prevention and Reduction, Mianyang Normal University, 166 Mianxing West Road, Mianyang,
Sichuan 621000, China
2 8920 South Bryerly Court, Hereford, Arizona, 85615, USA
Corresponding author: Steven W. Lingafelter (elaphidion@gmail.com)
Copyright: © Mei-Ying Lin & Steven W. Lingafelter.
This is an open access article distributed under
the terms of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
Research Article
Abstract
An article published by Gressitt (1941) has been ignored by all longicornists, including
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tion, and this status affects three taxa that were formally described therein: Bacchisa
(Bacchisa) rigida (Gressitt, 1941) = Chreonoma rigida Gressitt, 1941 = Chreonoma
rigida Gressitt, 1942 homonym and syn. nov.; Tetraophthalmus sikang (Gressitt, 1941)
= Chreonoma sikang Gressitt, 1941 = Chreonoma sikanga Gressitt, 1942, syn. nov.;
Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941 = Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1942,
homonym and syn. nov.
Key words: Date of publication, homonym, nomenclature, synonym, West China Border
Research Society
Introduction
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Sichuan, China) in 2022. In her preparations to study the longhorned woodbor-
ing beetle (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) fauna of Sichuan Province, Mr Yu-Tang
Wang introduced the book series “Journal of the West China Border Research
of Cerambycidae written by J. Linsley Gressitt (1941) was brought to our at-
tention. The publication date of this hitherto overlooked article by Gressitt was
researched and the nomenclatural status of three taxa described in this article
synonyms, which we synonymize here.
We follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Recommen-
dation 21F (ICZN 1999) in publishing this study. We also provide a PDF of the
Gressitt (1941) article as a Suppl. material 1 to allow for proper citation of the
referenced taxa.
Academic editor: Francesco Vitali
Received:
26 May 2023
Accepted:
13 June 2023
Published:
29 June 2023
ZooBank: https://zoobank.
org/417DFFBC-5A14-4639-96D9-
8C2110BD9169
Citation: Lin M-Y, Lingafelter SW
(2023) A hitherto overlooked
article by Gressitt in 1941 (Insecta,
Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae).
ZooKeys 1168: 179–192. https://doi.
org/10.3897/zookeys.1168.107021
ZooKeys 1168: 179–192 (2023)
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1168.107021
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Materials and methods
We follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999) to
make decisions about proper use of the names published in Gressitt (1941) and to
make appropriate corrections. The following articles are applicable to this paper.
Glossary: noun phrase, n.
primary homonym
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ferent nominal taxa and originally combined with the same generic name [Art.
57.2]. For variant spellings deemed to be identical see Article 58.
name-bearing type, or (in the cases of family-group and genus-group taxa) that
denote nominal taxa with name-bearing types whose own names are them-
Article 21. Determination of date
21.1. Date to be adopted
of a work and of a contained name or nomenclatural act is to be determined in
accordance with the following provisions.
absence of evidence to the contrary.
is demonstrated to be in existence as a published work is to be adopted as the date
of publication, but in the absence of such evidence the date to be adopted is
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21.4. Date incorrect
day on which the work is demonstrated to be in existence as a published work
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is to be adopted. In the absence of evidence as to day, the provisions of Article
Recommendation 21F.
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ing it is incorrect or incomplete, he or she should publish a correction in some
suitable manner.
The correct original spelling of a name is to be preserved unaltered, except
(for treatment of emendations and incorrect subsequent spellings see Articles
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ty and cannot enter into homonymy or be used as a substitute name.
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ternal source of information, clear evidence of an inadvertent error, such as a
lapsus calami or a copyist’s or printer’s error, it must be corrected. Incorrect
transliteration or latinization, or use of an inappropriate connecting vowel, are
not to be considered inadvertent errors.
corrigendum issued simultaneously with the original work or as a circulated
of the parts of the same volume) is to be accepted as clear evidence of an
inadvertent error.
Two or more available species-group names having the same spelling are hom-
onyms if they were originally established in combination with the same generic
name (primary homonymy), or when they are subsequently published in combi-
nation with the same generic name (secondary homonymy) (for species-group
names combined with homonymous generic names see Article 57.8.1).
57.2. Primary homonyms
Identical species-group names established for different nominal taxa when
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(Suppl. material 1) were made by Yu-Tang Wang in 2022 from a printed copy of the
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Helicon Focus v. 7 (Figs 8, 11), or were photographed using a Nikon DS-Ri2 cam-
era mounted on a Nikon SMZ25 stereo microscope and layers were captured and
in the following institutions, museums, or private collections: IZCAS = Institute of
MYNU = Invertebrate Col-
NU
SYSU
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; USNM (= NMNH) = National Museum of Natural
National Museum); WCUU
In addition, the following abbreviations were used: ICZN = International Code
of Zoological Nomenclature; TD = type depository; TL = type locality.
Results
The publication date of Gressitt’s “Chinese longicorn beetles of the
tribe Tetraopini (Coleoptera)”
The publication date of Gressitt’s “Chinese longicorn beetles of the tribe Tetra-
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know the exact publication date, which could have been any time from May to
The three new taxa published by Gressitt (1941) were published again in
1942 as if they were new (Gressitt 1942c), and this earlier paper had not been
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article by Gressitt (1941) was not indexed by the Zoological Record and Titan
database (Tavakilian and Chevillotte 2022). Therefore, we show the original de-
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sitt’s (1941) paper as Suppl. material 1.
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Photographic reproduction
as it does not include any new taxa, new homonyms, or new synonyms (Sich-
possibly attract more current readers.
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Taxonomy
Bacchisa (Bacchisa) rigida (Gressitt, 1941)
Figs 1, 2, 7, 8
Chreonoma rigida
Chreonoma rigida
Homonym, syn. nov.
Chreonoma rigida
Bacchisa (Bacchisa) rigida
Bacchisa rigida
Type material examined. Holotype, female (Fig. 7), Szechuan, Chengtu,
Other material examined. Sichuan:
July 1957, leg. Zong-Yuan Wang (IZCAS); 1 female (Fig. 8), Chengdu, 24 June
1981, leg. Yuan-Jiang Hui (IZCAS).
Distribution. China: Sichuan.
Remarks. Chreonoma rigida
synonym of Chreonoma rigida
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graph on the website is
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said to be a voucher specimen of Bacchisa rigida examined by Gressitt (1951),
the list of localities from which C. rigida is known.
Tetraophthalmus sikang (Gressitt, 1941)
Chreonoma sikang
Chreonoma sikanga
Astathes sikanga
Astathes (Tetraophthalmus) sikanga
Tetraophthalmus sikanga
Material examined. Holotype, Szechuan, Tienchuan,
Figures 1, 2. Descriptions of Bacchisa (Bacchisa) rigida (Gressitt, 1941) = Chreonoma rigida Gressitt, 1941 1a–c senior
homonym, original description by Gressitt (1941) a page 141 b page 142 c page 147 2
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Distribution. China: Sichuan.
Remarks. Gressitt (1941) spelled the new species epithet as “sikang
which might be a typographical error. He clearly wrote “CHREONOMA
SIKANGA
“sikanga sikanga
same way as Anastathes parva hainana. However, according to the Article
unaltered. Additionally, Gressitt’s (1942c) spelling “sikanga
considered as an “author’s corrigendum to be accepted as clear evidence of
Chreonoma
sikanga Chreonoma
sikang Gressitt, 1941.
Anastathes parva Gressitt, 1935
Anastathes parva parva Gressitt, 1935
Fig. 10a, c
Anastathes parva
Anastathes parva parva
Anastathes parva
Anastathes parvus
2019: 245 [in part].
Type material examined. Holotype, male (Fig. 10), , central Formosa, Bu-
Distribution. China: Taiwan.
Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941
Anastathes parva hainanaTL China: Hainan. TD
Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1942c: 7. TL China: Hainan. TD-
onym, syn. nov.
Anastathes parva hainana
Anastathes parva
Anastathes parva m. hainana
Anastathes parvus
2019: 245 [in part].
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Other material examined. Hunan: 1 male, Yizhang, Mangshan, Tian-
taishan, 15 July 2008, leg. Hong-Bin Liang (IZCAS). Guangdong: 1 male,
Figures 3–6. Descriptions 3, 4 Tetraophthalmus sikang (Gressitt, 1941) = Chreonoma sikang Gressitt, 1941 3a, b senior
homonym, original description by Gressitt (1941) a page 142 b 4
5, 6 Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941 5a–c senior homonym, original description by Gressitt
(1941) ab page 144 c page 147 6
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Hainan: 1 male 1 female, Diaolu-
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Guangxi: 1 male,
but leg. Chun-Guang Wang.
Distribution.
Remarks. Anastathes parva hainana
Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941. The holotype
of Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941 is a female from Tai-pin-ts’uen, Loi
this holotype during our study, and it was not included in the iconography by
Hua et al. (2009).
All authors have treated Gressitt (1942c) as the original description of Anas-
tathes parva hainana
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cation of the Hainan population by Gressitt (1940) “Chreonoma atricornis
a homonym of Chreonoma atricornis Pic, 1922, and considered hainana Gres-
sitt, 1942c as a replacement name of “Chreonoma atricornis
while Danilevsky (2020) erroneously considered hainana Gressitt, 1942c as a
replacement name for parva Anastathes
parva hainana Gressitt, 1942c is a duplicately published homonym of Anas-
tathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941, both based on the same holotype speci-
Chreonoma atricornis
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population (Fig. 10), but follow Gressitt (1941, 1942c, 1942d, 1951) in treating
it as a subspecies.
In addition to the three taxa whose publication date is now known to have
been one year earlier, Gressitt’s (1941) article moved Astathes dioica Fairmaire,
1878 to the genus Chreonoma one year earlier than Gressitt (1942d) and 10
years earlier than Gressitt (1951).
Discussion
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cord, although the Gressitt’s (1941) article was missing. The taxa published by
and in use by current herpetologists. For example, the genus Vibrissaphora Liu,
1945 and V. boringii
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Figures 7–11. Habitus 7, 8 Bacchisa rigida (Gressitt, 1941) = Chreonoma rigida Gressitt, 1941 7 holotype, female, from
Sichuan 8 female, from Sichuan 9 Tetraophthalmus sikang (Gressitt, 1941) = Chreonoma sikang Gressitt, 1941, holotype,
female, from Sichuan 10 Anastathes parva parva
11 Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt, 1941, female, from Hainan Island a dorsal view b lateral view
c ventral view d labels.
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1942 paper, following the description of “11. Chreonoma rigida Gressitt, n.
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nosed here to validate them for a synopsis now in press, whereas their full
descriptions were submitted elsewhere some time ago, but have not yet been
Chreonoma
sikanga Anastathes parva hainana Gressitt,
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was 28 March 1942.
Gressitt (1942d, which was published in November 1942) wrote “dioica
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tion of Gressitt (1941). Gressitt (1951) did not cite his 1941 paper but instead
1941 paper had been published (Gressitt 1951).
We suspect that the other taxonomic paper in the same volume of the Jour-
nal of the West China Border Research Society, on Cercopidae (Liu 1941), has
also been ignored by taxonomists. Three new species were published in it.
Acknowledgements
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type of Anastathes parva parva
Yang (Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou,
China) for checking volumes 21 and 22 of the Lingnan Science Journal. We
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of Natural History, Luxembourg) for the meaningful discussion on the prob-
lems with “sikangsikanga
Gouverneur (Rennes, France) and Robert Forsyth (copy editor) for their help-
ful comments.
Additional information
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Ethical statement
No ethical statement was reported.
Funding
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Author contributions
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review and editing (equal).
Author ORCIDs
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Data availability
Supplementary Information.
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