Apomorrisia, Santos-Silva & Nascimento, 2022

Santos-Silva, Antonio & Nascimento, Francisco Eriberto De L., 2022, New name and correction in the synonymy of a species of American Apomecynini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Zootaxa 5169 (4), pp. 399-400 : 399

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5169.4.9
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6952496
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE5C9D44-FFAA-6273-B9DB-E741FB810158
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Apomorrisia
status	nom. nov.

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Apomorrisia nom. nov.

Morrisia Santos-Silva, Nascimento & Wappes, 2019: 16 View in CoL View Cited Treatment (non Morrisia Davidson, 1852 View in CoL , Brachiopoda, Terebratulida View in CoL , Platidiidae View in CoL ).

Type species. Adetus squamosus Chemsak & Noguera, 1995 View in CoL (original designation for Morrisia View in CoL ).

Included species: Apomorrisia pulchra ( Santos-Silva, Nascimento & Wappes, 2019) , comb. nov.; Apomorrisia squamosa (Chemsak & Noguera, 1995) , comb. nov.; and Apomorrisia skillmani ( Gutiérrez & Santos-Silva, 2022) , comb. nov.

Remarks. Santos-Silva et al. (2019) described Morrisia and included two species: M. squamosa (Chemsak & Noguera, 1995) , and Apomorrisia pulchra Santos-Silva, Nascimento & Wappes, 2019 . Recently, Gutiérrez & SantosSilva (2022) described Apomorrisia skillmani .

Douglas Yanega (UCERM - University of California, Entomology Research Museum, Riverside, California, USA) informed (personal communication) us about the homonymy with Morrisia Davidson, 1852 ( Platidiidae , Brachiopoda). Therefore, in order to comply with article 52 of the ICZN (1999), Apomorrisia is proposed here as a replacement name for Morrisia Santos-Silva, Nascimento & Wappes, 2019 .

Etymology. Apomorrisia, Greek , από (apo) (from, away from, out of—used to form the genus name Apomecyna Audinet-Serville, 1835 , type genus of Apomecynini) added to Morrisia . Feminine gender.