Anticheira virens virens ( Drury, 1773 )

Moore, Matthew Robert, Jameson, Mary Liz & Paucar-Cabrera, Aura, 2014, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in the anticheirine scarabs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini), Insecta Mundi 2014 (392), pp. 1-20 : 6-7

Anticheira virens virens ( Drury, 1773)

Scarabaeus virens Drury, 1773: 54 [original combination].

Melolontha virens (Drury) [new combination by Herbst 1790: 162].

Antichira virens (Drury) [new combination by Ohaus 1918: 51].

Anticheira virens (Drury) [ Machatschke 1970: 157].

Dorysthetus virens (Drury) [new combination by Soula 1998: 71, 73].

Anticheira virens (Drury) [new combination].

syn. Cetonia smaragdula Fabricius, 1775 .

Cetonia smaragdula Fabricius, 1775: 45 [original combination].

Anticheira smaragdula (Fabricius) [new combination by Eschscholtz 1818: 476].

Chlorota smaragdula (Fabricius) [new combination by Burmeister 1844: 362–363].

Antichira virens (Drury) [new synonym by Ohaus 1898: 55].

syn. Scarabaeus smaragdinus Gmelin, 1790 .

Scarabaeus smaragdinus Gmelin, 1790: 1579 [original combination].

Antichira virens (Drury) [new synonym by Ohaus 1898: 55].

Remarks. From the work of Blanchard (1851) to the work of Machatschke (1972), no author established a type species for Dorysthetus . Machatschke (1972: 65) subsequently designated Anticheira coerulescens Blanchard, 1851 as the type species of Dorysthetus . Soula (1998: 71) did not address the type species designation by Machatschke (1972) and subsequently designated Macraspis chlorophana as the type species of Dorysthetus . Because Anticheira coerulescens was not an originally included nominal species in the genus Dorysthetus , it cannot be the type species (ICZN Articles 67.2). Thus, Machatschke’s (1972: 65) subsequent type designation of A. coerulescens is invalid. Soula’s (1998: 71) subsequent designation of Macraspis chlorophana as the type of Dorysthetus should be considered valid because it satisfies ICZN Article 69.1.