Under the plenary power the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has ruled to maintain current usage of the names Mutilla clytemnestra Fox, 1899 and Mutilla dasya Péringuey, 1899 through the suppression of the senior primary homonym and objective synonym of the former, Mutilla clytemnestra Péringuey, 1899, for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy.
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1 March 2017
Opinion 2386 (Case 3643) — Mutilla clytemnestra Fox, 1899 (currently Dasymutilla clytemnestra) and Mutilla clytemnestra Péringuey, 1899 (currently Mutilla dasya Péringuey, 1899) (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Aculeata, vespoidea, mutillidae): current usage maintained
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Afrotropical
Dasymutilla
Dasymutilla clytemnestra
Hymenoptera
Mutilla
Mutilla clytemnestra
Mutilla dasya