[Taxacom] Proventrite

[Kenneth Kinman]

On page 38 of Australian Beetles (Volume I) it says":   Although we continue to use prosternum for this region, the alternate term,proventrite, was used by Friedrich et al. (2008) for Archostemata and may be preferable."  
      Sounds like one could proably still safely use either term, although some reviewers and editors may have their own preferences.  .              -------------Ken         -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: ccarlt at lsu.edu
> To: aphodiinaemate at gmail.com; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:06:46 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Proventrum or prosternum?
> 
> My understanding is that, among the three thoracic subdivisions, the prothorax is the only one that is hypothesized to comprise the original segmental components, including sternite, with the other two being composites of each other and the first abdominal, reaching an extreme in Hymenoptera.
> 
> But that might now be an old school interpretation. I refer to the prosternum, then meso-, and metaventrites in beetle papers and no one has objected to those usages recently. Oddly, seemingly there is no push to refer to the dorsal sclerites  as dorsites.
> 
> I'd be curious myself to see what other opinions are out there.
> 
> Chris Carlton, Ph. D.
> Director, Louisiana State Arthropod Museum
> President, Coleopterists Society
> Department of Entomology, LSB-404
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> Subject: [Taxacom] Proventrum or prosternum?
> 
> Proventrum or prosternum? I have been recently told by a reviewer that
> the latter term is somewhat outdated. As far as I can tell prosternum
> is the standard, accepted term (Torre-Bueno, Matsuda, Snodgrass...)
> and the most commonly used by researchers. Has there been a recent
> move to harmonize morphological terminology that I am unfamiliar with?
> 
> Best and Happy Holidays
> 
> Jason
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