Holopyga luzulina Dahlbom, 1854

Holopyga luzulina Dahlbom, 1854

Holopyga luzulina Dahlbom, 1854: 49 . Lectotype ♂ designated by Rosa & Xu (2015: 61) View Cited Treatment . Brazil (MRSN, examined). Bohart & Kimsey (1982), Kimsey & Bohart (1991); Rosa & Xu (2015); Lucena & Almeida (2022); Lucena et al. (2022).

Holopyga lazulina : incorrect subsequent spelling by Mocsáry (1889: 124); Dalla Torre (1892); Brèthes (1903, 1906); Ducke (1913); Krombein (1979); Lucena et al. (2024: 52).

Lucena et al. (2024) considered the original spelling luzulina as “an incorrect subsequent spelling” [sic!] and lazulina as a justified emendation. The true situation is essentially the opposite. The name luzulina was proposed by Dahlbom (1854) to preserve the original spelling used by Spinola in his collection ( Hedychrum luzulinum ); therefore, the name luzulina was intentionally assigned and should not be altered. The use of lazulina by Mocsáry, Dalla Torre and others was merely an incorrect spelling since there is no indication in any of those works that this spelling was deliberately proposed as a correction of Dahlbom’s spelling, they just misread the original, and the error proliferated through copying. The incorrect spelling has by no means become the prevailing usage, actually not used since 1981 at least, until Lucena et al ’s recent resuscitation of it, so it cannot be deemed to be a correct spelling (Code Art. 33.3.1).