[Taxacom] WTaxa ...: PS

[Doug Yanega]

>PS: you might also wanna check this out for a laugh!
>http://www.eol.org/pages/65468

That is the result of the USNM type photo database using the original 
combination, rather than the valid name. That Endomychid *was* 
described as Engonius angustefasciatus by Pic, even though the older 
genus name "Engonius" is an Oxycorynine (the Endomychid name was a 
homonym). Homonyms happen, and are hard for automated systems to 
disambiguate. There is obviously a further problem if an electronic 
resource only links to valid names, and people put other things 
online that do not use the valid names, but this sort of error is 
understandable.

What's "funny" is that the online catalogue of Endomychidae 
(http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/test/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Endomychidae.txt) 
lists that same Pic name under two different genera, with a 
misspelled epithet in one case. That is:

Gerstaeckerus augustefasciatus (Pic, 1940:11) [China]
[=Engonius augustefasciatus Pic, 1940]

appears in one place, and

Sinocymbachus angustefasciatus (Pic, 1940:11) [Szechuan]
[=Engonius angustefasciatus Pic, 1940]

elsewhere. The latter is correct, so one has to wonder about the 
former catalogue record, as to whether it appeared that way in the 
2005 paper which created the genus Gerstaeckerus as a replacement for 
Engonius, or whether Pic actually named two species that differed 
only by one letter on the same page. I sorta doubt the latter.

Peace,
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