Charlesella, Heffern & Santos-Silva, 2023

Heffern, Daniel & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2023, Description of a new Brazilian species of Acanthoderini, new records in American Cerambycinae and Lamiinae, and a replacement name for a genus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), Zootaxa 5318 (4), pp. 555-562 : 561

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5318.4.8
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:120E8534-5075-4183-BCB4-41375D2AACE9
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8183310
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B08799-FF91-FFEB-E6E9-CC98FABCF9E1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Charlesella
status

Treatment

Charlesella View in CoL , replacement name

Pygmaeopsis Schaeffer, 1908: 347 View in CoL (non Warren, 1907: 295).

Remarks. Schaeffer (1908) described Pygmaeopsis for his new species P. viticola , from the United States of America (only known from the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas). However, the generic name had already been used by Warren (1907) to include his new species P. purpurea , from Peru.

Therefore, we are proposing Charlesella as a replacement name for Pygmaeopsis Schaeffer , resulting in two new combinations: C. viticola ( Schaeffer, 1908) and C. apicalis (Bezark & Santos-Silva, 2019) .

Etymology. The genus name is in honor of Charles Frederic August Schaeffer. Feminine gender.