Riazocoris niger Ahmad & Afzal, 1977

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Riazocoris niger Ahmad & Afzal, 1977

Riazocoris nigra Ahmad & Afzal, 1977 in Ahmad et al. (1977: 161). Lectotype (designated by Ahmad & Afzal 1979: 7, as holotype): ♂, Pakistan: Sind: Thatta (NHMK).

Riazocoris nigra: Ahmad & Afzal, 1979: 4–7 (redescription, illustrations, host plant); Ahmad (1980): 137 (list); Ahmad (1981): 52, 105, fig. 8 (checklist, host plant, illustration).

Nomenclature. The name Riazocoris nigra with explicitly given authorship of Ahmad and Afzal first appeared in morphological paper devoted to description of its internal organs by Ahmad et al. (1977), which is sufficient to make it available from that publication. The intended original description appeared later in Ahmad & Afzal (1979: 4). The fact that Riazocoris has been combined with an unavailable generic name in Ahmad et al. (1977) has no effect on its availability (see ICZN 1999: Art. 11.9.3.1). There is no mention of type material in Ahmad et al. (1977). As holotype is defined as ‘the single specimen upon which a new nominal species-group taxon is based in the original publication’ ( ICZN 1999: Art. 73.1), the subsequently designated ‘holotype’ by Ahmad & Afzal (1979: 7) must be considered the lectotype according to ICZN (1999: Art. 74.5). As the generic names ending with - coris (a Latinized Greek noun meaning true bug) are masculines, the gender agreement of the species name is corrected as R. niger according to ICZN (1999: Art. 31.2).