identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
B0611772FFC2FF84FD78FB3B57D45119.text	B0611772FFC2FF84FD78FB3B57D45119.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Praehelichus Lobl and Smetana 2020	<div><p>Praehelichus Löbl and Smetana, new genus</p> <p>zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 444D6929-8323-4092-A82A-14A4BC0469A1</p> <p>Similarly to the above case, Praehelichus Bollow, 1940 was described as a new subgenus of Helichus to include four species, Helichus longus (Solsky, 1876), Helichus sinensis Fairmaire, 1888, Helichus sericatus (C. O. Waterhouse, 1881), and Helichus solskyi (Zaitzev, 1908). Subsequently, Praehelichus was raised to genus rank and was used as valid, although Bollow and subsequent workers failed to designate the type species. According to ICZN (1999, Art. 13.3), Praehelichus Bollow is unavailable. Löbl and Smetana (2006: 61) designated Dryops sericatus C. O. Waterhouse, 1881 as the type species of Praehelichus. As they had not explicitly indicated that the taxon was new, this name remained unavailable (ICZN 1999, Art. 16.1). In order to make the name available, the new genus Praehelichus is here established, with Dryops sericatus C. O. Waterhouse, 1881 designated as the type species. The original description given by Bollow (1940: 36) characterized the taxon.</p> <p>ELATERIDAE</p> <p>Paulusiella Löbl and Smetana, new genus zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 085F6DFA-9767-4A66-A84E-D7805FF82855</p> <p>Mandl (1974: 640) stated he was establishing the new genus Paulusiella for Escalerina serraticornis Paulus, 1972 and a new species, Paulusiella fossulatipennis Mandl, 1974. In the same paper he also described Paulusiella richteri Mandl, 1974 with a subspecies, Paulusiella richteri acuticollis Mandl, 1974, and Paulusiella pallida Mandl, 1974. The type species was not designated and Paulusiella Mandl is therefore, according to ICZN (1999, Art. 13.3), unavailable. Löbl (2007: 32) designated Paulusiella fossulatipennis Mandl, 1974 as the type species. As he had not explicitly indicated that the taxon was new, this name remained unavailable (ICZN 1999, Art. 16.1). In order to make the name available, the new genus Paulusiella is here established, with Paulusiella fossulatipennis Mandl, 1974 as the type species. The description given by Mandl (1974) differentiates the taxon.</p> <p>The relationships of Paulusiella are doubtful, and the genus was placed by Ivie and Barclay (2011) within Elateridae incertae sedis.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B0611772FFC2FF84FD78FB3B57D45119	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Löbl, Ivan;Smetana, Aleš	Löbl, Ivan, Smetana, Aleš (2020): On the Names of Three Genera of Dryopidae and Elateridae (Coleoptera). The Coleopterists Bulletin 74 (3): 542-543, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-74.3.542, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-74.3.542
