Conognatha jakobsoni Obenberger, 1928

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

Conognatha jakobsoni Obenberger , resurrected name

Germain and Kerremans (1906) described Pithiscus trifasciatus from Chile, currently placed in the genus Conognatha Eschscholtz, 1829 . When Hoscheck (1934) revised Conognatha , with collaboration from Théry, it was recognized that this name was a junior secondary homonym of Buprestis trifasciata Fabricius, 1793 , itself a primary homonym of Buprestis trifasciata Thunberg, 1787 . Conognatha trifasciata (Fabricius) had been used as a valid name for a species in the genus until the time of the Hoscheck monograph. The Fabrician name was placed in synonymy with Conognatha sellovii (Klug, 1825)( Hoscheck 1934: 287) , apparently based on the fact that it was a homonym of the Thunberg name, but this wasn’t discussed. Théry (in Hoscheck 1934: 189) proposed the replacement name Conognatha germaini for Pithiscus trifasciatus , even though the Hoscheck monograph listed Conognatha jakobsoni Obenberger, 1928 , as a synonym on the same page! The few modern works ( Moore and Lander 2010, Moore and Vidal 2015) treating Conognatha have followed the Hoscheck usage without explanation. Clearly, C. jakobsoni has priority and is the valid name for this taxon, and the synonymy should be as follows:

Conognatha jakobsoni Obenberger, 1928: 319 .

Pithiscus trifasciatus Germain and Kerremans, 1906: 386 . Preoccupied, secondary homonym of Buprestis trifasciata Fabricius, 1793 .

Conognatha germaini Théry in Hoscheck 1934: 189. Replacement name for Pithiscus trifasciatus Germain and Kerremans.

Conognatha triplozonatula Obenberger, 1934: 767 . Replacement name for Pithiscus trifasciatus Germain and Kerremans.