Chnoodes chaudoiri Mulsant (1850) is designated the type species of Chnoodes Mulsant (1850), and Chapinella Gordon (1996) is recognized as an unnecessary replacement name. A new synonymy is created placing Chapinella Gordon as a junior synonym of Chnoodes Mulsant

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CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FLAn unnecessary generic name in Exoplectrini(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)Robert GordonNorthern Plains EntomologyP.O. Box 65Willow City, ND 58384Date of Issue: 24 August 2007INSECTAMUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics0010Robert GordonAn unnecessary generic name in Exoplectrini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)Insecta Mundi 0010: 1Published in 2007 byCenter for Systematic Entomology, Inc.P. O. Box 147100Gainesville, FL 32604-7100 U. S. A.http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published onany non-marine arthropod taxon. 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Box 65Willow City, ND 58384Abstract. Chnoodes chaudoiri Mulsant (1850) is designated the type species of Chnoodes Mulsant (1850), andChapinella Gordon (1996) is recognized as an unnecessary replacement name.  A new synonymy is created placingChapinella Gordon as a junior synonym of Chnoodes Mulsant.DiscussionGordon (1996) proposed Chapinella as a new generic replacement name for Chnoodes Mulsant (1850)because he considered Chnoodes and Dapolia Mulsant (1850) synonymous.  Roger Booth, Natural His-tory Museum, London, recently pointed out that this was an unnecessary action.Mulsant (1850: 908-916) described 13 Chnoodes species, then, in the appendix to that volume (Tab-leau Méthodique, p. 1073-1104), transferred several of these to his subgenus Chnoodes (Dapolia). Crotch(1874: 287) designated Dapolia fallax (Mulsant) the type species of Dapolia. Korschefsky (1932: 225)designated Dapolia puberula (Mulsant) as type species for Chnoodes. All 1104 pages of Mulsants workwere originally published by the journal as a single item, not in serial parts.  Therefore, as recognized byR. Booth, Korschefskys designation is invalid because he did not select a type species from the nominotypicsubgenus. Chnoodes is a valid genus lacking a designated type species, and Chnoodes chaudoiri Mulsantis here designated the type. The lectotype of C. chaudoiri, designated by Booth and Pope (1989), ispresent in the Natural History Museum, London and there is a paralectotype in the Hope EntomologicalCollections, Oxford University Museum.Chapinella Gordon thus becomes a junior synonym of Chnoodes Mulsant.AcknowledgmentsI thank R. Booth, Natural History Museum, London, both for manuscript advice and for manuscriptreview, and Adam Slipinski, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, for manuscript review.Literature citedBooth, R. G., and R. D. Pope. 1989. A review of the type material of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera)described by F. W. Hope, and by E. Mulsant in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford.Entomologica Scandinavica 20: 344-370.Crotch, G. R.  1874.  A revision of the coleopterous family Coccinellidae. E. W. Janson; London. 311 p.Gordon, R. D.  1996.  A new generic name in Exoplectrinae (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Letters toCoccinella.  Coccinella 6: 27.Korschefsky, R.  1932.  Coccinellidae II. Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 120: 225-659.Mulsant, E.  1850. Species des Colèoptéres triméres sécuripalpes.  Annales des Sciences  Physiques etNaturelles de Lyon 2: 1-1104.Accepted June 2, 20072 I NSECTA M UNDI 0010, August 2007 GORDON

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