Kapu (Diptera : Bombyliidae : Anthracinae : Exoprosopini), a replacement name for the Australian genus Kapua Lambkin & Yeates
Christine L. Lambkin A B and David K. Yeates AA Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
B Corresponding author. Email: chris.lambkin@csiro.au
Invertebrate Systematics 20(1) 161-161 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS05056
Submitted: 6 January 2006 Accepted: 6 January 2006 Published: 17 March 2006
Abstract
The replacement name Kapu is provided for the Australian beefly genus Kapua Lambkin & Yeates (Bombyliidae : Anthracinae : Exoprosopini). Kapua Lambkin & Yeates is a junior homonym of the molluscan fossil Kapua Marwick (Gastropoda : Sorbeoconcha : Janthinoidea : Epitoniidae).
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Stephen Gaimari, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, for alerting us to the existence of the senior homonym that he found while searching the online Nomenclator Zoologicus (http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus, verified January 2006) developed with the permission of the Zoological Society of London at the MBLWHOI Library by uBio with the support of GBIF and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Lambkin C. L.,
Yeates D. K., Greathead D. J.
(2003) An evolutionary radiation of beeflies in semi-arid Australia: systematics of the Exoprosopini (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17, 735–891.
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