Acanthaspis celidota, Swanson, 2017

Swanson, Daniel R., 2017, Five new replacement names in Reduviidae (Heteroptera), Zootaxa 4341 (2), pp. 291-295 : 292

Acanthaspis celidota nom. nov.

= Acanthaspis maculata Sucheta & Chopra, 1989: 164 . Junior secondary homonym of Acanthaspis maculata (Distant, 1903) .

The relevant nomenclatural details for this name are summarized in Table 1.

Senior homonym: Junior homonym: Acanthaspis maculata (Distant, 1903) Acanthaspis maculata Sucheta & Chopra, 1989

1. Distant (1903b: 58) described Velitra maculata as a

new species from Burma.

2. Distant (1904: 277) redescribed Velitra maculata Distant, 1903 , referring to additional material from Calcutta.

3. Distant (1910: 194) transferred Velitra maculata Distant, 1903 to Acanthaspis , resulting in the combination Acanthaspis maculata (Distant, 1903) . In this treatment, he referred to the 1904 re-description as "When I originally described this species...", despite the earlier true original description of 1903.

1. Sucheta & Chopra (1989: 164) described Acanthaspis maculatus [sic] for a new species from India.

4. Maldonado (1990: 386, 456) erroneously treated the following taxa as distinct species: Velitra maculata Distant, 1903 and Acanthaspis maculata Distant, 1910 . The latter combination does not refer to any actual species-group taxon.

2. Kerzhner (1992: 59) noted the correct spelling for the specific epithet and drew attention to the homonymy.

Acanthaspis Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 is feminine, being derived from two Greek feminine nouns, ἄκανΘα, -Ης, Latinized acantha, ‘thorn, prickle, spine’ and ἀσπΊς, -Ίδος, Latinized aspis, ‘shield’. With the mandatory change in gender of the specific epithet ( ICZN 1999, Art. 31.2), Sucheta & Chopra’s (1989) name is a junior secondary homonym ( ICZN 1999, Art. 57.3), and it is here rejected. This species was described subsequently to either world catalog (i.e., Putshkov & Putshkov 1987, Maldonado 1990), and no junior synonyms known to me exist for this taxon. Thus, a new substitute name is required under Art. 60 ( ICZN 1999). Therefore, I propose Acanthaspis celidota nom. nov. for Acanthaspis maculata Sucheta & Chopra, 1989 . The epithet is derived from the Greek adjective, κΗλῑδωτός, -ή, -ον, Latinized celidotus, - a, - um, ‘stained, soiled, spotted’ and reflects the spotted pattern highlighted in the original epithet.