Comments on Scarabaeus Linnaeus, 1758, Dynastes MacLeay, 1819, carabaeinae Latreille, 1802, and dynastinae MacLeay, 1819 (Insecta, Coleoptera, scarabaeoidea): proposed conservation of usage (Case 3590; see BZN 69: 182-190, 293-295)

摘要

I wish to register my strong support for conservation of the current usage of Scarabaeus and Dynastes and their associated higher taxa as proposed in Case 3590, but also wish to help clarify the matter of authorship of type designations in Jolyclerc (1807a, 1807b). Having obtained a copy of the original 1807 two-volume set, I have been researching this work and compiling a list of type designations in it and unfortunately misled the authors of this application when I advised them that the preface (page iii) had the information as to the authorship of Lamarck for the insect entries.