Taeniochauliodes Esben-Petersen, 1924

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Genus Taeniochauliodes Esben-Petersen, 1924

Taeniochauliodes Esben-Petersen, 1924: 153 . Type species. Taeniochauliodes ochraceopennis Esben- Petersen, 1924: 154 (by original designation).

Leptochauliodes Esben-Petersen, 1924: 157 . Type species. Leptochauliodes esbenpeterseni Kimmins, 1930: 663 (by present designation; see Nomenclatural notes below).

Nomenclatural notes

Taeniochauliodes . The genus name Taeniochauliodes has priority over the concurrently-published name Leptochauliodes based on the First Reviser action of Liu et al. (2013d), who treated Taeniochauliodes as valid and Leptochauliodes as its invalid synonym.

Leptochauliodes . Oswald & Penny (1991) identified Leptochauliodes as a genus name based on a misidentified type species and a name whose type species had yet to be validly fixed. They noted that the case (at that time) required referral to the Commission for type species fixation under Art. 70b of the Code (3 rd edition, ICZN 1985). We are not aware of any nomenclatural acts published since 1991 that have validly fixed the type species of Leptochauliodes under either the 3 rd or 4 th editions of the Code. To resolve this long-standing issue, we act here to formally fix the type species of Leptochauliodes under Art. 70.3 (4 th edition, ICZN 1999) in a manner that is in accordance with long-accepted usage. Esben-Petersen (1924) origionally included a single nominal species in Leptochauliodes – Chauliodes tenuis McLachlan, 1869 – which he explicitly designated as its type species (“genotype”). Kimmins (1930) presented evidence that the Leptochauliodes tenuis of Esben-Petersen (1924) was not conspecific with Chauliodes tenuis McLachlan , but was, rather, a new species, which Kimmins redescribed as Leptochauliodes esbenpeterseni (as “esben-peterseni” [sic]). Based on this situation Kimmins treated Leptochauliodes esbenpeterseni Kimmins (a nominal species not originally included in Leptochauliodes ) as the de facto type species of Leptochauliodes . Kimmins’ proposal has been accepted and adopted by all subsequent workers on the Corydalidae . Accordingly, we here fix (under Art. 70.3.2 of the Code) as the type species of Leptochauliodes the nominal species Leptochauliodes esbenpeterseni Kimmins, 1930 [the original combination of the current taxonomic species Taeniochauliodes esbenpeterseni ( Kimmins, 1930) ], which was misidentified as Chauliodes tenuis McLachlan, 1869 in the original designation of Esben-Petersen (1924). Liu et al.’s (2013d) citation of the same species is an indicator of recent usage, but is invalid as a type species fixation because it does not cite Art. 70.3 as an indicator of the intent to fix (rather than merely cite) a type species, as explicitly required in Art. 70.3.2.

Included species

Taeniochauliodes angustus Liu & Price in Liu et al., 2013d

Afrotropical ( South Africa).

Taeniochauliodes attenuatus Liu & Price in Liu et al., 2013d

Afrotropical ( South Africa).

Taeniochauliodes barnardi Liu & Hayashi in Liu et al., 2013d

Afrotropical ( South Africa).

Taeniochauliodes esbenpeterseni (Kimmis, 1930) Leptochauliodes esbenpeterseni Kimmins, 1930

Afrotropical ( South Africa).

Taeniochauliodes fuscus Liu & Price in Liu et al., 2013d

Afrotropical ( South Africa).

Taeniochauliodes minutus Liu & Hayashi in Liu et al., 2013d

Afrotropical ( South Africa).

Taeniochauliodes natalensis Liu & Price in Liu et al., 2013d

Afrotropical ( South Africa).

Taeniochauliodes ochraceopennis Esben-Petersen, 1924

Afrotropical ( South Africa).