Alienus Galileo & Martins, 2010

Galileo, Maria Helena Mainieri, Rosa, Paolo & Santos-Silva, Antonio, 2020, Two new replacements names for South American Cerambycinae (Coleoptera Cerambycidae), Zootaxa 4834 (2), pp. 298-300 : 300

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4834.2.10
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4448343
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F703F061-2956-9D12-FF2B-AAF0FC154418
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Alienus Galileo & Martins, 2010
status	nom. nov.

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Hosticus nom. nov. pro Alienus Galileo & Martins, 2010 View in CoL ( nec Handlirsch, 1906; nec Bridwell, 1919)

( Figs. 5–8 View FIGURES 1–8. 1–4 )

Alienus Galileo & Martins, 2010: 388 View in CoL View Cited Treatment ; Monné, 2012: 26 (cat.); 2020: 406 (cat.).

Type species. Alienus curiosus Galileo & Martins, 2010 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Etymology. Latin, “hosticus”, meaning “hostile”; adjective used here as a noun in the nominative singular. It is a synonym of the Latin adjective “alienus” meaning “alien”, “foreigner.” Masculine gender.

Remarks. Handlirsch (1906: 392) described Alienus , an insect fossil genus currently in Blattinopsidae (Protorthoptera) ( Hörnschemeyer & Stapf 2001). Some years later, Bridwell (1919: 117) established a junior homonym, Alienus , as a new genus in Hymenoptera (in the newly established family Alienidae of Proctotrupoidea). Noticing the homonymy, Strand (1929: 25) established Obenbergerella as a new replacement name for Alienus Bridwell (currentely in the family Chrysididae ). A third homonym was more recently erected by Galileo & Martins (2010: 388), Alienus , for a genus in Coleoptera ( Cerambycidae , Cerambycinae , Eligmodermini ) and their new species Alienus curiosus . Here we are proposing Hosticus as a new replacement name for Alienus Galileo & Martins to resolve the triple homonym with Alienus Handlirsch and Alienus Bridwell.

Alienus curiosus remains known only from the holotype female from Brazil ( Espírito Santo), deposited in the MZSP collection. We take the opportunity to better illustrate the holotype ( Figs. 5–8 View FIGURES 1–8. 1–4 ).