Tettigades lizeriana Delétang, 1919

Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 3883 (1), pp. 1-94 : 86

Tettigades lizeriana Delétang, 1919

Tettigades lizeriana Delétang 1919: 88 .

Type locality. Mendoza, Argentina.

Remarks. The species is reported from Mendoza ( Delétang 1919). Torres (1958a) did not consider the species in his revision of Tettigades as the description is limited to a statement in a dichotomous key to distinguish T. lizeriana from T. chilensis Amyot & Audinet-Serville. The description was not complete nor was it illustrated, and the specimen on which the species was to be based was never seen by the curator of the collection where it was to be deposited. The whole description of T. lizeriana concerns the base of the seventh apical cell reaching beyond the middle of the eighth. Delétang (1919) stated that he had discovered a new species whose description was to be published did not consider the statement in the key to be the complete species description. Following Article 8.2 of the Code (ICZN 1999) the statement in Delétang (1919) that the description was to be published (“a publicarse”) strongly suggests that he was not publishing the name for the permanent scientific record. Recommendation B8 of the Code (ICZN 1999) states that names should not be established in keys as was the case for T. lizeriana . Since the name does not meet the criterion of Article 8.2, it does not meet the criterion of Articles 11.1 or 12.1 which makes the name unavailable under Article 10.1. Article 10.1.1 also applies in this case as Delétang (1919) did not supply all data for the new taxon and he expressly stated that he would publish the information in the future (“a publicarse”). The name is not available until all relevant Articles have been met. Since there was no additional work published with the full species description, the name is unavailable. Therefore, we suggest that Tettigades lizeriana Delétang, 1919 is an invalid name because it has not met the provisions for availability under the Code.