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24 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITYOF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM
ROME Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto,
ON, Canada (Doug Currie, Brad
Hubley)
SEMC Snow Entomological Museum,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
(Steve Ashe)
SLTC Stéphane Le Tirant Collection,
Lachenaie, PQ, Canada
SMFD Forschungsinstitut und
Naturmuseum Senckenberg,
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
(Damir Kovac)
SMTD Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde,
Dresden, Germany (Dirk Ahrens)
TAMU Texas A&M University, College
Station, TX (Ed Riley)
UAIC University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
(Carl Olson)
UCCC Museo de Zoologia, Universidad de
Concepción, Concepción, Chile
(Viviane Jerez)
UCDC R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology,
University of California, Davis,
CA (Steve Heydon, Lynn Kimsey)
UCRC Entomology Museum, University of
California, Riverside, CA (Doug
Yanega, Dave Hawks)
UMRM W. R. Enns Entomology Museum,
University of Missouri, Columbia,
MO (Robert Sites)
UNSM University of Nebraska State
Museum, Lincoln, NE (Brett
Ratcliffe, Mary Liz Jameson)
USNM United States National Museum,
Washington, D.C. (Dave Furth,
Gloria House)
UVGC Universidad del Valle de Guatemala,
Guatemala City, Guatemala
(Jack Schuster)
VMCP Vladislav Maly Collection, Prague,
Czech Republic
ZMHB Museum für Naturkunde der
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin,
Germany (Hella Wendt)
ZMUH Zoologisches Institut und
Zoologisches Museum der
Universität Hamburg, Germany
(Rudolf Abraham)
ZSMC Zoologische Staatssammlung
München, Germany (Max
Kübandner, Alexander Riedel)
Catalog Format
The catalog section lists all names herein
considered valid within the subtribe Platycoeliina
(subtribal, generic, species). Under
each species of Platycoelia are names used in
the literature for the valid species. All names
are included as they appeared in the original
literature, including valid names, available
names (synonyms), misspelled names (lapsus
calami), unavailable names (nomina nuda,
varieties, etc.) that have no nomenclatural
status, and misapplied names (when the author
misidentified a taxon or misused a
name). Each name is followed by a list of references
(separated by semicolons) in which
that name appeared. Each reference includes
the author, date, and beginning page(s) of the
passage(s) mentioning the taxon as well as
the nature of the content in square brackets.
Type Specimens
I attempted to examine all traceable type
material for Platycoelia species-group names.
For all type specimens, the depository is listed
and all of the labels are transcribed for ease
of future location and recognition. I placed a
red label on all of the holotypes, allotypes, lectotypes,
and neotypes and a yellow label on all
of the paratypes and paralectotypes examined
during the course of my research on the genus.
A number of specimens examined had
type labels of some form but proved not to be
part of the original type series. I labeled these
specimens “erroneous type label” or “not a
type of . . .” in order to facilitate their recognition.
Ohaus (1904b) described a few “varieties”
of Platycoelia species. I have determined that
these names are infrasubspecific and therefore
not regulated by the International Code
of Zoological Nomenclature (hereafter referred
to as ICZN). Article 45.6.4 states that
names described as “varieties” published before
1961 are subspecific “unless its author
expressly gave it infrasubspecific rank, or the
content of the work unambiguously reveals
that the name was proposed for an infrasubspecific
entity, in which case it is infrasubspecific.”
Ohaus (1904b) described both