Fissocantharis walteri Y. Yang & X. Yang

Yang, Yuxia, Su, Junyan & Yang, Xingke, 2014, Taxonomic note and description of new species of Fissocantharis Pic from China (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), ZooKeys 443, pp. 45-59 : 53

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Cantharidae

Fissocantharis walteri Y. Yang & X. Yang nom. n.

Rhagonycha coomani Pic, 1935: 12.

Kandyosilis coomani : Wittmer 1989: 226.

Micropodabrus coomani : Wittmer 1997: 312 [secondary hononym, preoccupied by Micropdabrus coomani (Pic, 1926: 35), originally in Lycocerus ].

Micropodabrus wittmeri Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2009: 67 (replacement name for Micropodabrus coomani (Pic, 1935), nec Pic, 1926) [primary homonym, preoccupied by Micropodabrus wittmeri Kazantsev, 2007]. syn. n.

Fissocantharis wittmeri Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2009: Yang et al. 2009: 49.

Distribution.

Vietnam (Tonkin).

Etymology.

The species is named after the first name of late Dr. Walter Wittmer.

Remarks.

This species was originally described in Rhagonycha Eschescholtz, 1830, and initially transferred to Kandyosilis Pic, 1929 (Wittmer, 1989), then later to Micropodabrus (Wittmer, 1997), where it became a junior secondary homonym of Micropdabrus coomani (Pic, 1926), which was originally in Lycocerus Gorham, 1889, so its specific name was replaced by Micropodabrus wittmeri Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2009. However, the latter had been preoccupied by Micropodabrus wittmeri Kazantsev, 2007, so Micropodabrus wittmeri Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2009 is permanently invalid as a junior homonym (ICZN 4th, Article 57.2) and must be replaced by a new substitute name (ICZN 4th, Article 60.1). Now this species is placed in Fissocantharis Pic, 1921, so a replacement name is proposed here as Fissocantharis walteri Y. Yang & X. Yang, nom. n.