Taxacom: Questions of homonymy of three genus names

[Tony Rees]

Hi Markku,

continuing consideration of the other 2 cases you raise:

> 2) ... NHM says "Haplota Dunning & Pickard, 1858" is "unjustified
emendation" [of Aplota Stephens, 1834]

This appears to be correct, in which case Haplota Dunning & Pickard, 1858
would be unavailable, and Haplota Marcus, 1940 not a homonym

> 3) Setia Adams & Adams, 1852 vs Setia Meigen, 1829 vs Setia Oken, 1815
I guess this trickier issue? "Setia Oken, 1815" is suppressed, but is
"Setia Meigen, 1829" true original emendation Sesia or just subsequent
usage of suppressed Oken name?

My guess would be that Setia Adams & Adams, 1852 (in Mollusca) in the
available name in this case. Setia Meigen is simply an incorrect
[?=unjustified] emendation according to Pühringer, F. and Kallies, A.,
2004. Provisional checklist of the Sesiidae of the world (Lepidoptera:
Ditrysia). *Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Salzkammergut*, *4*, pp.1-85. (
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sesiidae.net%2Fliterature%2FMitteilungen_2004_001-085.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C97ecbab4779c403b437a08dc9c5c99e4%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638557169353137621%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qv466a6BTM7VVN13CcFijFY%2BvCD%2FXHyFqio7lMWszMQ%3D&reserved=0) who
state:

Sesia FABRICIUS 1775:547 [[Sphinx] apiformis CLERCK 1759, subsequent
designation by LATREILLE 1810:440]
  Setia OKEN 1815:745; rejected name (Opinion Nr. 417 ICZN)
  Setia MEIGEN 1829:103; incorrect emendation
  Sometia MEIGEN 1829:115; incorrect original spelling (unavailable)
  (+ more...)

Once again, others can concur if this is correct.

Regards - Tony


On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 at 01:08, David Campbell via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Drawing attention to such cases of homonyms is also of particular value
> because many major databases handle them quite badly, confusing them and
> not having staffing and/or mechanisms to fix them.  One would hope that a
> human can figure out that *Graphis* the lichen and *Graphis* the snail are
> different, but a major database "corrected" showing a photo of the snail as
> the lichen with showing a photo of the lichen as the snail.  Another, when
> contacted about a homonym error, replied that it's the fault of one of the
> sources, contact them.  Putting in the work to trace the sources verified
> that it was the aggregator that had wrongly combined the two.  I am aware
> of a few publications that "calibrated" molecular clocks based on rather
> obvious homonym errors.
>
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