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30 July 2020 Opinion 2460 (Case 3745) – Heteronychus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae): Geotrupes cricetus Hausmann, 1807 conserved as type species
Abstract

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has used its plenary power to conserve the current usage of the generic name HeteronychusDejean, 1833 by setting aside all previous type fixations for this genus preceding that of Geotrupes cricetusHausmann, 1807 by Krell in 2002.

"Opinion 2460 (Case 3745) – Heteronychus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae): Geotrupes cricetus Hausmann, 1807 conserved as type species," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 77(1), 101-102, (30 July 2020). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v77.a034
Published: 30 July 2020
KEYWORDS
African black beetle
black sugarcane beetle
Dynastinae
Heteronychus
Heteronychus cricetus
nomenclature
Scarabaeidae
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