Yuripachys

Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 23-64 : 50

Genus Ƭ Yuripachys nom. nov.

Meropachys Popov, 1986: 78 –79 (original description). Type species: Meropachys dubius Popov, 1986 , by original designation. Junior homonym of Meropachys Burmeister, 1835 ( Heteroptera : Coreidae ).

Meropachys: POPOV & HEISS (2014a): 186 (systematic placement).

Note. The generic name Meropachys Popov, 1986 is a junior homonym of Meropachys Burmeister, 1835 , a valid genus of the family Coreidae ( Hemiptera : Heteroptera ), including two valid species from South America (PAC- KAUSKAS 2010, ANONYMUS 2019). As there is no junior synonym available as a replacement name, we propose here a new substitute name, Yuripachys nom. nov., to replace Meropachys Popov, 1986 . The new name is dedicated to Yuri A. Popov (1936–2016), a great Russian specialist in heteropteran palaeontology, being composed of his given name and the Greek adjective pachys (παχύς), meaning for example thick, large, stout, coarse, fat, or great. The gender is masculine; the grammatical stem is Yuripache -.