Phytonomus Schoenherr, 1823

Skuhrovec, Jiří, 2008, Taxonomic changes within the tribe Hyperini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (2), pp. 677-690 : 682-683

4. Phytonomus Schoenherr, 1823 , a junior objective synonym for Hypera

SCHOENHERR (1823) changed the grammatical endings of all non-masculine generic weevil names and advocated that names of masculine gender should be given to all weevil genera to prevent the need of grammatical changes of the endings of species names in the case that the species is transfered from one genus to another ( OBERPRIELER et al. 2007). He applied this principle also to Hypera Germar, 1817 and renamed it as Phytonomus Schoenherr, 1823 (unjustified replacement name, see ALONSO- ZARAZAGA & LYAL 1999: 188). Phytonomus Schoenherr, 1823 , is an unnecessary replacement name and a junior objective synonym of Hypera Germar, 1817 .

SAMOUELLE (1819) designated Curculio nigrirostris Fabricius, 1775 , as the type species of Hypera , which originally contained five species ( Rhynchaenus nigrirostris Fabricius, 1801 (= Curculio nigrirostris Fabricius, 1775 ); R. scanicus Fabricius, 1801 ; Curculio polygoni

Table 4. Type species designations for Hypera and Phytonomus other than SAMOUELLE (1819).

Linnaeus, 1761; C. punctatus Fabricius, 1775 ; and C. arundinis Paykull, 1792 ). Later authors apparently neglected this designation and established other species as the type species of either Hypera or Phytonomus (see Table 4). However, all these subsequent designations are invalid.