Lyperus Billberg, 1820a : 57

Bezděk, Jan & Biondi, Maurizio, 2018, On the generic names proposed in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) by Gustaf Johan Billberg, Zootaxa 4422 (2), pp. 184-190 : 186

Lyperus Billberg, 1820a: 57

Names originally included:

1. flavipes available name for Chrysomela flavipes Linnaeus, 1767 ; now Luperus flavipes (Linnaeus, 1767) ; genus Luperus Geoffroy, 1762 ( Galerucinae , Luperini )

2. flavipes var. b unavailable

3. rufipes available name for Crioceris rufipes Fabricius, 1787 ; synonym Luperus saxonicus (Gmelin, 1790) ; genus Luperus Geoffroy, 1762 ( Galerucinae , Luperini )

4. rufipes var. b unavailable

Type species. Chrysomela flavipes Linnaeus, 1767 , by present designation.

Current status. Synonymized here with Luperus Geoffroy, 1762 .

Comments. The name Lyperus was already proposed as unjustified emendation for Luperus by Agassiz (1846) and thus the spelling “ Lyperus ” can be found time to time in the entomological literature (e.g. Jakobson 1900, Peyerimhoff 1923). Also Bedel (1892) used the spelling “ Lyperus Müller ” but this case evidently refers to a wrong transliteration of Latin “ Lvpervs ” in Müller (1764).

The genus name Lyperus Billberg, 1820 is completely forgotten. Both available names originally included by Billberg are now classified in the genus Luperus (see above). As the type species was never designated we choose Chrysomela flavipes Linnaeus, 1767 and consequently Lyperus Billberg, 1820 is proposed a new synonym of Luperus Geoffroy, 1762 .