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Alonso-Zarazaga & Roca-Cusachs (2017)
ARQUIVOS ENTOMOLÓXICOS, 17: 457-458
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NOTA / NOTE
Svataea nom. nov. for Lakhonia Descarpentries & Villiers, 1967
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae), non Lakhonia Yang, 1936
(Hemiptera: Pentatomidae).
Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga 1 & Marcos Roca-Cusachs 2
1 Depto. de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales.
c/ José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2. E-28006 Madrid (SPAIN). e-mail: zarazaga@mncn.csic.es
2 Dept. of Evolutive Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona.
Av. Diagonal, 643. E-08028 Barcelona (SPAIN). e-mail: marcosrocacusachs@gmail.com
Abstract: Lakhonia Yang, 1936 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) and Lakhonia Descarpentries & Villiers, 1967 (Coleoptera:
Buprestidae) have been found to be homonyms. The nomenclatural status for the buprestid is discussed and the
replacement name Svataea Alonso-Zarazaga & Roca-Cusachs nom. nov. is proposed for this genus.
Key words: Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Buprestidae, Pentatomidae, Lakhonia, Svataea, Meliboeus, Nalanda, new
combinations, resurrected name, Oriental Region.
Resumen: Svataea nom. nov. para Lakhonia Descarpentries & Villiers, 1967 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), non
Lakhonia Yang, 1936 (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae). Lakhonia Yang, 1936 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) y Lakhonia
Descarpentries & Villiers, 1967 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) han resultado ser nombres homónimos. Se discute el estado
nomenclatural para el bupréstido y se propone el nombre de reemplazo Svataea Alonso-Zarazaga & Roca-Cusachs nom.
nov. para este género.
Palabras clave: Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Buprestidae, Pentatomidae, Lakhonia, Svataea, Meliboeus, Nalanda, nuevas
combinaciones, nombre resucitado, Región Oriental.
Recibido: 13 de junio de 2017
Publicado on-line: 27 de junio de 2017
Aceptado: 21 de junio de 2017
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Yang (1936) described the monospecific genus Lakhonia (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) to place
the new shield bug species Lakhonia nigripes Yang, 1936 from Lakhon (Malay Peninsula), which became
its type species by original designation. For a discussion on the situation of this type locality, see Huang
et al. (2015: 557). Rider et al. (2002) sinonimized the species Oedocoris eburneus Zheng & Liu, 1987
becoming the genus Oedocoris Zheng & Liu, 1987 a junior synonym of genus Lakhonia. This name is in
current use in Pentatomidae (e.g. Rider et al., 2002).
In 1967, Descarpentries and Villiers described again another genus Lakhonia, this time for three
species of Coleoptera Buprestidae (Descarpentries & Villiers, 1967), namely, L. coomani (Bourgoin, 1924)
(from Meliboeus Deyrolle, 1864, type species), L. harmandi and L. tonkinea, the latter two as new
species; thus, the genus is present in Thailand and Vietnam. This genus was synonymized with Nalanda
Théry, 1904 by Ohmomo & Akiyama (1989). However, Kubáň et al. (2000) treated this name again as a
valid genus in the subtribe Meliboeina Majer, 2000. This taxonomic placement was followed by an almost
mass synonymy of many genera in the subtribe Meliboeina under Meliboeus by Kubáň (2006), including
Lakhonia, without any sound reason or explanation, an act against which Bellamy (2007) firmly
complained: “Such wide-ranging genus-group name synonymy proposals are clearly beyond the scope of a
strictly Palaearctic catalogue... Without including other genera that belong to the Meliboeus genus
group..., the synonymies proposed by Kubáň (2006) neither remedy existing confusion or stabilize the
Alonso-Zarazaga & Roca-Cusachs (2017): Svataea nom. nov. for Lakhonia Descarpentries & Villiers (Col.: Buprest.), non...
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classification.” Consequently, Bellamy used Lakhonia as a valid genus in his World Catalogue of
Buprestoidea (Bellamy, 2008). Despite this criticism, Kubáň (2016) still kept Lakhonia as a synonym in a
lumped Meliboeus.
Both genera have been in use in recent years, even if they are homonyms. We align with
Bellamy’s criteria and the World Catalogue treatment and consequently consider that Lakhonia
Descarpentries & Villiers, 1967 (stat. res.) is an available name in need of a replacement name, since it
is invalid because of homonymy. We propose as a replacement name Svataea Alonso-Zarazaga & Roca-
Cusachs nom. nov. The new name is friendly dedicated to the outstanding Czech specialist in
Buprestidae Dr Svatopluk “Svata” Bílý. Gender feminine. The species are transferred to the new genus
name as new combinations: Svataea coomani (Bourgoin, 1924), Svataea harmandi (Descarpentries &
Villiers, 1967) and Svataea tonkinea (Descarpentries & Villiers, 1967).
Acknowledgements
We thank Dr. Svatopluk Bílý (Prague, Czech Republic) and Dr. David Rider (Fargo, USA) for their
help in obtaining literature
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