Anopliomorpha Linsley, 1936

Santos-Silva, Antonio, Botero, Juan Pablo & Tirant, Stéphane Le, 2018, A new genus, four new species and taxonomic and geographic notes in Mexican Cerambycidae, Zootaxa 4420 (2), pp. 189-210 : 193-194

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scientific name	Anopliomorpha Linsley, 1936
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Anopliomorpha Linsley, 1936 View in CoL

Anopliomorpha Linsley, 1936: 465 View in CoL ; Monné, 2017a: 173 (cat.).

Linsley (1936) and nearly all posterior authors considered Anopliomorpha View in CoL as being neuter gender. However, according to Merriam-Webster (2002), the suffix “-morpha” is neuter only when considered plural of “-morphus”: “- morpha n combining form, pl - morpha [NL, fr. fem. sing. & neut. pl. of - morphus -morphous, fr. Gk - morphos]: one or ones having (such) a form <Entero morpha> -esp. in names of zoological taxa larger than a genus <Cyno morpha> <Hystrico morpha> [NL = New Latin; n = noun; pl = plural; fr. = from; fem. = feminine; sing. = singular; neut. = neuter].”

According to ICZN (1999: Article 11.8): “A genus-group name (see also Article 10.3) must be a word of two or more letters and must be, or be treated as, a noun in the nominative singular.” Therefore, Anopliomorpha cannot be considered as being neuter gender. Accordingly, nearly all species currently in this genus need to be corrected to the nominative singular:

A. antennata Chemsak & Noguera, 1993 = no change

A. antillarum (Fisher, 1932) = A. antillara

A. gracilis Chemsak & Noguera, 1993 = no change

A. hirsutum ( Linsley, 1935) View in CoL = A. hirsuta View in CoL

A. reticolle ( Bates, 1885) View in CoL = A. reticollis View in CoL

A. rinconium ( Casey, 1924) View in CoL = A. rinconia View in CoL