Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. A, 36(2), pp. 49–50, May 22, 2010

Zehntneriana, a Replacement Name for Zehntneria Takeda, 1972
(Crustacea, Brachyura, Pilumnidae), Preoccupied by Zehntneria
Brunner Von Wattenwyl, 1907 (Insecta, Orthoptera, Phasmidae)
Peter K. L. Ng1 and Masatsune Takeda2
1

Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore,
Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
E-mail: dbsngkl@nus.edu.sg
2
Faculty of Modern Life, Teikyo Heisei University, 2–51–4 Higashi-Ikebukuro,Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 170–8445 Japan
E-mail: takeda-m@thu.ac.jp(Received 23 March 2010; accepted 19 April 2010)

Abstract A new replacement name, Zehntneriana, is proposed for Zehntneria Takeda, 1972
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Plumnidae), which had been preoccupied by Zehntneria Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907 (Insecta, Orthoptera, Phasmidae).
Key words: Zehntneria, replacement name, Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachura, Pilumnidae.

Takeda (1972, p. 35) established a new pilumnid crab genus, Zehntneria Takeda, 1972, forthree species from the Japan and Indonesia, Z.
amakusae (Takeda et Miyake, 1969), Z. miyakei
Takeda, 1972, and Z. villosa (Zehntner, 1894)(type species by original designation). A fourthspecies, Z. novaeinsulicola, was later describedby Takeda and Kurata (1977) from Japan. Ng(1987, p. 99) referred the genus to the subfamily
Rhizopinae Stimpson, 1858, in the Pilumnidae,
and commented on its similarities with the poorly
known Pseudolitochira Ward, 1942 (see also Nget al., 2008).
Brunner von Wattenwyl (1907, p. 233), however, had established Zehntneria for an African
genus of stick insects (Orthoptera, Phasmidae)with three new species, Z. desciscens, Z. secundaria and Z. mystica. Otte and Brock (2005) subsequently designated Z. mystica Brunner vonWattenwyl, 1907, as the type species of thegenus. This genus name is still in use. Zehntneria
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907, is thus a seniorhomonym of Zehntneria Takeda, 1972.
To resolve the homonymy, we hereby propose
a replacement name Zehntneriana for thebrachyuran Zehntneria Takeda, 1972. The typespecies of Zehntneriana remains as Ceratoplax
villosa Zehntner, 1894, and the gender of thegenus is feminine.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Tony Rees (Manager, Divisional Data Centre, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia) for highlighting thisproblem to us, and to Martyn Low for help withthe bibliographic work needed to help resolve
this.
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