Mirhipipteryx lobata Günther 1977

Baena-Bejarano, Nathalie, Heads, Sam W. & Taylor, Steven J., 2018, Comments on the neglected nymphs of mud crickets in the genus Mirhipipteryx (Caelifera: Tridactyloidea: Ripipterygidae), Zootaxa 4486 (2), pp. 180-188 : 187

Mirhipipteryx lobata Günther 1977 designation as a nomen nudum

Mirhipipteryx lobata Günther 1977 is considered here a nomen nudum. This species name was first published by Otte (1997) in the Orthoptera Species File (volume 6). The author cited Günther (1977) as the reference for the species description with the type located in “San Francisco H.” However, the paper attributed for the description ( Günther 1977) does not include a description for this species. Instead the paper includes the description of Mirhipipteryx lilo granchacensis Günther 1977 , with the type at the Instituto M. Lilo in Tucuman, Argentina. Subsequent species lists ( Günther 1980, 1989) made by the same author, to whom this species was attributed, do not include any mention of M. lobata . Moreover, a search for the type species at the Californian Academy of Sciences (CAS) using online database did not reveal any specimen with this name. The search for type specimens at CAS resulted in the species Mirhipipteryx lilo (which is the subspecies M. lilo lilo Günther 1969 ) and M. disparilobata Günther 1989 . Most likely, this species name came from an unintentional editing error by Otte (1997). In conclusion, this species name does not conform to Article 13 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) by not having a type or a written description.