Parabuthus liosoma (Ehrenberg 1828) (Buthidae)

Acosta, Luis E. & Fet, Victor, 2005, Nomenclatural notes in Scorpiones (Arachnida), Zootaxa 934 (1), pp. 1-12 : 5

Parabuthus liosoma (Ehrenberg 1828) (Buthidae)

Androctonus (Prionurus) leiosoma Ehrenberg in Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1828: plate II, fig. 6.

Androctonus liosoma: Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1831 : without page number.

Parabuthus leiosoma: Braunwalder & Fet 1998: 32 ; Fet & Lowe 2000: 205. Incorrect original spelling because of prevailing usage of the spelling liosoma .

The name Androctonus (Prionurus) leiosoma was introduced by Ehrenberg (1828) referring to a figure (available under Art. 12.2.7.), and the same spelling was used in a further paper ( Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1829). The name was later changed to liosoma by Hemprich & Ehrenberg (1831). The latter constitutes an incorrect subsequent spelling, which, nonetheless, won wide acceptance: Fet & Lowe (2000) record about 40 citations using liosoma as the valid name of the species. Braunwalder & Fet (1998) detected the long unused spelling of the name, and proposed to restore it, which affected the names of both the species and three subspecies. Since almost all authors adopted the changed name, it represents the prevailing usage: liosoma becomes the correct spelling and is to be retained (Art. 33.3.1).