Phytotelmatrichis Darby & Chaboo 2015

Darby, Michael, 2016, Studies of Peruvian Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 3: the genus Discheramocephalus Johnson including six new species, and validation of the unavailable generic name Phytotelmatrichis Darby and Chaboo, Zootaxa 4097 (3), pp. 416-425 : 424

The genus Phytotelmatrichis Darby & Chaboo 2015

The genus Phytotelmatrichis , with two new species, Phytotelmatrichis peruviensis Darby & Chaboo and Phytotelmatrichis osopaddington Darby & Chaboo , was described ( Darby & Chaboo 2015b) without designation of a type species for the genus, making the genus name Phytotelmatrichis Darby & Chaboo 2015 unavailable (ICZN 1999 article 13.3). While ICZN Article 11.9.3 requires that “A species-group name must be published in unambiguous combination with a generic name,” ICZN Article 11.9.3.1 states that "the generic name need not be valid or even available" - so the species peruviensis Darby & Chaboo, 2015 and osopaddington Darby & Chaboo, 2015 are available and valid from their original publication, even though the genus name they are published in combination with is not. The opportunity is now taken to rectify this situation. Phytotelmatrichis peruviensis Darby & Chaboo, 2015 is here designated as the Type Species of Phytotelmatrichis Darby & Chaboo gen. nov. (ICZN Article 13.3) making explicit bibliographic reference to characters given by Darby & Chaboo (2015b) to differentiate Phytotelmatrichis from closely related taxa (ICZN Article 13.1.2). Phytotelmatrichis gen. nov. (gender feminine) includes the following new combinations: Phytotelmatrichis peruviensis (Darby & Chaboo, 2015) comb. nov.; Phytotelmatrichis osopaddington (Darby & Chaboo, 2015) comb. nov. This solution follows that used by Huys (2009) for a similar problem.