Datziinae as a new subfamily name for the unavailable name Protopsychodinae Stebner et al., 2015, (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Frauke Stebner; Mónica M Solórzano Kraemer; Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal; Rüdiger Wagner

doi:10.7717/peerj.1423

Datziinae as a new subfamily name for the unavailable name Protopsychodinae Stebner et al., 2015, (Diptera: Psychodidae)

PeerJ. 2015 Nov 24:3:e1423. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1423. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Frauke Stebner¹, Mónica M Solórzano Kraemer², Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal³, Rüdiger Wagner⁴

Affiliations

¹ Steinmann-Institut, Abteilung Paläontologie , Bonn , Germany.
² Steinmann-Institut, Abteilung Paläontologie , Bonn , Germany ; Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum , Frankfurt am Main , Germany.
³ Red Ambiente y Sustentabilidad, Instituto de Ecología, A.C. , Xalapa, Veracruz , Mexico.
⁴ FB 10 Naturwissenschaften, Institut für Biologie , Kassel , Germany.

Abstract

In a recent paper a new subfamily of Psychodidae was inadequately named Protopsychodinae. This nomenclatural act cannot be considered as a valid name under ICZN regulations because the subfamily name is not based on the type genus Datzia Stebner et al., 2015, and furthermore the fossil genus Protopsychoda Azar et al., 1999 was originally described under the subfamily Psychodinae. Therefore, the new family-group name Datziinae is herein proposed.

Keywords: Datzia; Nomenclature; Protopsychodinae; Psychodidae; Subfamily.

Grants and funding

This research was possible with funding No. RU665/10-1 from the German Research Foundation (DFG), and a postdoctoral fellowship to Mónica M. Solórzano Kraemer, No. SO894/3-1 from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal was supported by the Project INECOL-10816. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.