International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

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Xyleborus Bowdich 1825, Excursions in Madeira & Porto Santo 1823: xii, 149, figs. 35a-d (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 848

Xyleborus Eichhoff 1864, Berlin entomol. Z., 8: 37 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Lacordaire, 1866 (Gen. Coléopt., 7: 381): Bostrichus monographus Fabricius 1792, Entomol. Syst., 1: 365) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 848

Xyletinus Latreille 1809, Gen. Crust. Ins., 4: 376 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Ptilinus ater Creutzer 1796, in Panzer, Ins. Germ., heft 35, tab. 9) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 966

Xylocopa Latreille [1802], in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins., 3: 379 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Westwood 1840 (Introd. mod. Classific. Ins., Gen. Synopsis: 86): Apis violacea Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 578) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 743

XYLOCOPIDAE (correction of ‘Des Xylocopites’) Latreille 1802, Hist. nat. Ins., Hyménopt., 2: xylophagorum Ratzeburg 1844 [originally in Pachyceras], Die Ichneumonen, 1: 218 (specific name of the type species of Roptrocerus Ratzeburg 1848) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 437

Xylophaga Turton 1822 (Bivalvia). ICZN 2018: Opinion 2429

Xylophagaidae Purchon 1941 (Bivalvia). ICZN 2018: Opinion 2429

Xylophagidae Fallén 1810 (Diptera). ICZN 2018: Opinion 2429

Xylophaginidae Purchon 1941 (Bivalvia). ICZN 2018: Opinion 2429

Xylophagus Meigen 1803 (Diptera). ICZN 2018: Opinion 2429

xylostella Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Phalaena (Tinea)], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 538 (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1002

Xylosteon Bertrand 1763, Dict. Univ. Foss. Propres Foss. Accid., 1: 64 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 592

Xylota Meigen 1822, Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten, vol. 3, p. 211 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy of the replaced nominal genus Heliophilus Meigen 1803: Musca sylvarum Linnaeus 1758) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1747

Xymene Iredale 1915, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 47: 471 (gender: masculine) (type species, by original designation: Trophon plebejus Hutton 1873, Cat. marine Moll. N.Z.: 9) (Gastropoda). Opinion 911

xyphothyreus Schrank 1781 [originally in Gryllus (Bulla)], Enum. Ins. Austr.: 243, No. 462 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 1103

Xyrichtys Cuvier 1814, Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris, 1814: 87 (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Jordan & Gilbert 1883, Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 16: 605: Coryphaena novacula Linnaeus 1758) (Osteichthyes, Perciformes). Opinion 1799