Tuoba tiosiana ( Takakuwa, 1934e )

Jonishi, Taro & Nakano, Takafumi, 2022, Correct Authorships, Synonymies, and Remarks on the Type Series of Fourteen Names of Centipedes Introduced by Yoshioki Takakuwa in 1934 and Mecistocephalus takakuwai (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha and Scolopendromorpha), Species Diversity 27 (1), pp. 71-81 : 75

Tuoba tiosiana ( Takakuwa, 1934e)

[Japanese name: Choshi-shimajimukade]

Nesogeophilus tiosianus Takakuwa, 1934e: 386–387 , fig. 8 (available name); Takakuwa 1942: 19.

Nesogeophilus tiosianus Takakuwa, 1934f: 399–400 (invalidly described as new).

Nesogeophilus tiosiensis [sic]: Takakuwa 1934f: 400, figs 3, 4 (incorrect subsequent spelling).

Nesogeophilus tiosianus (without attribution): Takakuwa 1940a: 108–109, fig. 115.

Type series. No types were designated in the original description ( Takakuwa 1934e), although Takakuwa (1934e, f) imply that he examined at least one male and one female. While examining the Miyosi collection we found none of the four syntypes reported by Takashima (1955) and assume they have been lost.

Type locality. Choshi, Chiba Prefecture [as Tyosi (Tiba) in Takakuwa (1934f)], Honshu, Japan .

Japanese name. The name “Choshi-shimajimukade” was introduced by Takakuwa (1934e).

Remarks. Chamberlin (1920a) did not explicitly state the etymology of the generic name, and moreover, he included its type species T. curticeps Chamberlin, 1920 only within the genus. According to Article 30.2.4 of the Code, therefore, the gender of the generic name Tuoba is feminine (see Jones 1998). The ending of the adjectival specific name thus must be changed accordingly from masculine - us to feminine - a, yielding the combination Tuoba tiosiana (a mandatory change under Article 34.2 of the Code).

The entry for this species in ChiloBase 2.0 (Bonato et al. 2016i) refers to both Takakuwa (1934e) and Takakuwa (1934f) as the original publications for this species, but the authorship of tiosianus is attributed there to Takakuwa (1934f). This should be corrected to Takakuwa (1934e) in accordance with the actual precedence of the two works.

Takakuwa (1938a) erroneously cited Takakuwa (1934f) as “Trans. Nat. His. Soc. Sapporo, Vol. 18, pt. 4, 1934” (see Remarks for G. monoporus ).