[Taxacom] Return of the digital taxa

[Stephen Thorpe]

Just to be clear, descriptions *never* required "dead bodies". This is nothing new. Also, it is not a nomen nudum. A nomen nudum is a name published without a description/diagnosis or illustration. I assume you mean that it fails to be an available name for some reason (I can think of two candidate reasons in this case). However, it will probably be treated as an available name, as it only fails on a technicality, and so do a great many names in big journals, so the Code will probably have to "loosen up" at some stage. Most importantly, I am at a total and complete loss as to why you think this paper has any relevance to "without dead bodies". The description includes details and illustrations of the internal genitalia, etc.! Why in the name of heck do you refer to this case as a "dirty deed"?? I think that it must be you who are confused ...

Stephen

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On Thu, 22/9/16, JF Mate <aphodiinaemate at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [Taxacom] Return of the digital taxa
 To: "Taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Thursday, 22 September, 2016, 3:40 PM
 
 It seems taxonomy fraudsters have
 cottoned on the fact that
 descriptions no longer require "dead bodies". A description
 of a new
 Dermestidae was published in Entomology and Applied Science
 Letters.
 Fortunately the author was pretty lazy and it ended up being
 a nomen
 nudum. Reference to original article and link to article
 uncovering
 the dirty deed below.
 
 Jason
 
 Original article: Description of a new species of the genus
 Thaumaglossa (COLEOPTERA: Dermestidae: Megatominae) of the
 Astrakhan
 Region of Russia.
 Entomology and Applied Science Letters, 2016, 3, 4: 12-14.
 
 
 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308163532_New_Faunistic_Records_and_remarks_on_Dermestidae_Coleoptera_-_Part_15
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