Ectinogonia isamarae Moore, 1994

Woodley, Norman E., 2023, Taxonomic placement and nomenclatural revisions for five species of Neotropical Buprestidae (Coleoptera), Insecta Mundi 2023 (983), pp. 1-6 : 4

Ectinogonia isamarae Moore , resurrected name

A recent paper ( Anguita-Salinas et al. 2019) provided molecular evidence refining the species concepts of a few species of Ectinogonia Spinola, 1837 . In that paper they provided evidence that the two recognized subspecies of E. speciosa (Germain, 1856) were not monophyletic and should be recognized as separate species. Ectinogonia obscuripennis Cobos, 1954 , was considered to be the valid name of one of the taxa (which Anguita-Salinas et al. consistently misspelled as E. “ oscuripennis ”). However, Cobos (1954: 65) actually proposed the name Ectinogonia buquetii speciosa var. obscuripennis , because his new varietal name was proposed under the subspecies E. b. speciosa . Thus, even though this has been recognized as a subspecies in subsequent works as E. speciosa obscuripennis (e.g., Bellamy 2008a: 834) prior to the Anguita-Salinas et al. paper, the name is clearly unavailable as a quadrinomial and infrasubspecific. Therefore, E. isamarae Moore (1994: 159) , considered a synonym of E. obscuripennis by Anguita-Salinas et al. (2019: 169), is the valid name for the species.