Taxacom: designation of holotype

[Thomas Pape]

I strongly encourage discussions of nomenclatural issues, but please provide links to the original works. Michael may very well be correct that art. 73.1.2 settles the issue, but assessing what is implied in the original publication and what the text 'seems to infer' is risky without having access to the original publication in its entirety.

/Thomas

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Sent: 19. februar 2025 19:54
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Subject: Re: Taxacom: designation of holotype

As far as I see, art. 73.1.2 clarifies this: "If the nominal species-group taxon is based on a single specimen, either so stated or implied in the original publication, that specimen is the holotype fixed vy monotypy"

Best

Michael Schmitt


Am 19.02.2025 um 19:47 schrieb John Grehan via Taxacom:
> I have a question for clarification. A publication in 1894 described a 
> new species. It referred to the male, and 'this moth' but did not 
> illustrate or specify how many specimens. It seems to infer a single 
> specimen. Later, in
> 2018 a taxonomic revision referred to a holotype male that was 
> examined in the repository. If there was only a single specimen 
> represented as being that described in the original publication, does 
> this qualify as being designated as the holotype, or should it have 
> been designated as a lectotype. Hope someone well versed in the Code 
> can clarify, as this hair-splitting stuff which gets me lost at times.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John grehan
>
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