Protochauliodes van der Weele 1909
Creators: name: Martins, Caleb C.
name: Ardila-Camacho, Adrian
name: Rivera-Gasperín, Sara Lariza
name: Oswald, John D.
name: Liu, Xingyue
name: Contreras-Ramos, Atilano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Megaloptera
Corydalidae
Protochauliodes

description: Genus Protochauliodes van der Weele, 1909
Protochauliodes van der Weele, 1909: 257. Type species. Chauliodes cinerascens Blanchard in Gay, 1851: 134 (by original designation).
Austrochauliodes Riek, 1954: 137. Type species. Protochauliodes biconicus Kimmins, 1954: 443 (by present designation; see Nomenclatural botes below). syn. nov.
Taxonomic notes
Austrochauliodes, whose type species is fixed below, is formally established here as a new junior subjective synonym of Protochauliodes.
Nomenclatural notes
Oswald & Penny (1991) identified Austrochauliodes as a genus name based on a misidentified type species and a name whose type species had yet to be validly fixed. They noted that the case (at that time) required referral to the Commission for type species fixation under Art. 70b of the Code (3 rd edition, ICZN 1985). We are not aware of any nomenclatural acts published since 1991 that have validly fixed the type species of Austrochauliodes under either the 3 rd or 4 th editions of the Code. To resolve this long-standing issue, we act here to formally fix the type species of Austrochauliodes under Art. 70.3 (4 th edition, ICZN 1999) in a manner that is in accordance with currently-accepted usage. Riek (1954) originally included a single valid nominal species in Austrochauliodes – Hermes dubitatus Walker, 1853 – which he explicitly designated as its type species. Theischinger (1983) provided evidence that the Austrochauliodes dubitatus of Riek (1954) was not conspecific with Hermes dubitatus Walker, but was, rather, conspecific with the taxonomic species Protochauliodes biconicus Kimmins, 1954, a new species that was established by Kimmins independent of Riek’s work. Based on this situation Theischinger treated Protochauliodes biconicus Kimmins (a nominal species not originally included in Austrochauliodes) as the de facto type species of Austrochauliodes. Theischinger’s treatment has been accepted and adopted by all subsequent workers on the Corydalidae. Accordingly, we here fix (under Art. 70.3.2 of the Code) as the type species of Austrochauliodes the nomial (and also currently valid taxonomic) species Protochauliodes biconicus Kimmins, 1954, which was misidentified as Hermes dubitatus Walker, 1853 in the original designation of Riek (1954).
Included species
Protochauliodes aridus Maddux, 1954
Nearctic (USA).
Protochauliodes biconicus biconicus Kimmins, 1954
Protochauliodes biconicus Kimmins, 1954
Austrochauliodes dubitatus (Walker, 1853)
Australian (Australia).
Protochauliodes biconicus incertus Theischinger, 1983
Australian (Australia).
Protochauliodes biconicus tooloomensis Theischinger, 1983
Australian (Australia).
Protochauliodes bullocki Flint, 1973
Neotropical (Chile).
Protochauliodes cascadius Evans, 1984 Protochauliodes cascadius Evans, 1972 (unavailable)
Nearctic (USA).
Protochauliodes cinerascens cinerascens (Blanchard in Gay, 1851)
Chauliodes cinerascens Blanchard in Gay, 1851
Chauliodes chilensis Hagen, 1861 (unavailable)
Neotropical (Chile).
Protochauliodes cinerascens fumipennis Flint, 1973
Neotropical (Chile).
Protochauliodes cinerascens reedi Kimmins, 1954
Neotropical (Chile).
Protochauliodes dubitatus (Walker, 1853)
Hermes dubitatus Walker, 1853
Chauliodes dubitatus (Walker, 1853)
Archichauliodes dubitatus (Walker, 1853)
Austrochauliodes dubitatus (Walker, 1853)
Neotropical (?) (South America (?)).
Protochauliodes eungella Theischinger, 1988
Australian (Australia).
Protochauliodes humeralis (Banks, 1908) Neohermes humeralis Banks, 1908
Neotropical (Chile).
Protochauliodes kirramae Theischinger, 1983
Australian (Australia).
Protochauliodes minimus (Davis, 1903)
Chauliodes minimus Davis, 1903
Neohermes infuscatus Caudell, 1933
Neohermes nigrinus Van Dyke, 1944
Protochauliodes infuscatus (Caudell, 1933)
Nearctic (USA).
Protochauliodes montivagus Chandler, 1954
Nearctic (USA).
Protochauliodes simplus Chandler, 1954
Nearctic (USA).
Protochauliodes spenceri Munroe, 1953
Nearctic (Canada, USA).
description: Published as part of Martins, Caleb C., Ardila-Camacho, Adrian, Rivera-Gasperín, Sara Lariza, Oswald, John D., Liu, Xingyue & Contreras-Ramos, Atilano, 2022, A world checklist of extant and extinct species of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida), pp. 1-93 in European Journal of Taxonomy 812 (1) on pages 44-46, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.812.1727, http://zenodo.org/record/6448732