Oreosternum, Jia & Liang & Fikáček, 2020

Jia, Fenglong, Liang, Zulong & Fikacek, Martin, 2020, A review of Himalcercyon stat. nov., with description of a new species from the Chinese Himalaya and an updated key to Asian genera of Megasternini (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 67 (1), pp. 35-49 : 35

Oreosternum nom. nov.

= Oreocyon Hebauer 2002a: 35 (not Marsh 1872: 406, not Krumbiegel 1949: 591).

Type species.

Oreocyon frigidus Hebauer, 2002 (= Oreosternum frigidum comb. nov.)

Comments.

While preparing the key, we noticed that the genus name Oreocyon is preoccupied by two older names: Oreocyon Marsh, 1872 (a fossil oxyaenid mammal, today a synonym of Patriofelis Leidy, 1872) and Oreocyon Krumbiegel, 1949 (a genus of Canidae described based on fur remains, later renamed to Dasycyon Krumbiegel, 1953 due to homonymy and today considered as a synonym of Canis Linnaeus, 1758). To avoid the homonymy, we are here proposing a new replacement name Oreosternum nom. nov. for Oreocyon Hebauer, 2002. The new name combines the prefix oreo - referring to mountains as used in the original name, and the core sternum, referring to the expected close relationship of this genus to Paroosternum Scott, 1913 exhibited by the prosternal morphology (see the key above). The new name is gender neutral.