Dotillidae Stimpson, 1858, 1897

Murniati, Dewi Citra, Asakura, Akira & Davie, Peter J. F., 2023, Two new species of Tmethypocoelis Koelbel, 1897 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Dotillidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia, ZooKeys 1156, pp. 159-190 : 159

Dotillidae Stimpson, 1858

Tmethypocoelis Koelbel, 1897.

Dioxippe (Tmethypocoelis) Koelbel, 1897: 715; 1898: 574.

Tmethypocoelis - Shen 1935: 33. - Sakai 1939: 643; 1976: 625. - Davie 1990: 463; 2002: 347. - Dai et al. 1986: 451. - Dai and Yang 1991: 495. - Huang et al. 1992: 150 (key), 154. - Wada 1995: 415 (key). - Davie and Kosuge 1995: 208. - Ng et al. 2008: 235. - Shih et al. 2015: 61.

Type species.

Dioxippe (Tmethypocoelis) ceratophora Koelbel, 1897, by original designation, subsequently elevated to generic status by Shen (1935); gender feminine.

Remarks.

The genus name Dioxippe de Man 1888, to which the type species was originally placed, is pre-occupied by Dioxippe Thomson, 1860 [ Coleoptera ]; and therefore, a replacement name, Tympanomerus , was proposed by Rathbun (1897), and subsequently used by Tesch (1918) in his account of Tympanomerus ceratophora . However, Tympanomerus Rathbun, 1897, is itself currently considered a junior synonym of Ilyoplax Stimpson, 1858. Shen (1935) was the first to formally elevate Tmethypocoelis to full generic rank.

The year of publication of Tmethypocoelis ceratophora has usually been wrongly attributed to Koelbel (1898); the 1898 paper is actually a German translation of Koelbel’s original paper published in 1897 in Hungarian. The name should thus be cited as Tmethypocoelis ceratophora (Koelbel, 1897).