NOMINA CIRCUMSCRIBENTIA INSECTORUM

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Typified names: A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

NOMEN: Amyocerata Remington 1955 [C.L. Remington. The "Apterygota". – Centennial vol., Californial Acad. Sci., 1955: 495-505]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Remington 1955): Triplura (= "Thysanura") + Pterygota

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:
= Ectognathata Boudreaux 1979

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Pediculus/f=Scarabaeus/g (sine Podura; incl. Lepisma)

TYPIFIED NAME IN USE (Rohdendorf 1977): Scarabaeoda

MODERN STATUS: the valid, the oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Amyocerata:

Kluge 2010 BioNomina Dual-Nom :

Today the taxon consisting of Triplura and Pterygota is often called “Ectognatha”. At some point, the authorship of the name Ectognatha was misattributed to Hennig (see, e.g., Kristensen 1995), but Hennig could pick it up from textbooks. Originally, the name Ectognatha Stummer-Traunfels 1891 was proposed for the taxon of wingless insects, later named Triplura Ewing 1942.

Hennig (1953) used the name “Ectognatha” to refer to a taxon combining the original Ectognatha (i.e., Triplura) with the Pterygota, and thus changed the circumscription to include all winged insects. Some workers apply circumscriptional principles loosely and consider that a non-typified name can be shared by taxa of nearly the same circumscription. In this case, though, the difference was enormous. Originally, the name Ectognatha was applied to triplurans to emphasize their difference from wingless insects with recessed mouthparts, i.e., Collembola and Diplura. This name sounds odd, though, being applied to insects with all kinds of mouthparts, including completely hidden ones, like in sucking lice.

For the taxon consisting of Triplura + Pterygota, some authors (e.g., Handschin 1958) used the name “Insecta”, whose original circumscription also does not fit this taxon.

In circumscriptional nomenclature, the correct name for Triplura + Pterygota is Amyocerata Remington 1955. Ectognathata Boudreaux 1979 is its junior circumscriptional synonym.

Using the names Ectognatha and Insecta instead of Amyocerata causes great confusion, when a statement about polyphyly of Hexapoda appeared from nothing (Kluge 1996a, 1999b, 2000).

REFERENCES:

Boudreaux H.B. 1979. Arthropod phylogeny with special reference to insects. New York, Chichester, Brisbane & Toronto (John Wiley & sons): 1–320.

Handschin E. 1958. Die systematische Stellung der Collembolen. // In: E. C. Becker & E. D. Managing (ed.), Proceedings of the Xth International Congress of Entomology, Montréal August 17–25 1956, 1: 499–508.

Hennig W. 1953.) Kritische Bemerkungen zum phylogenetischen System der Insecten. // Beiträge zur Entomologie, 3: 1–85.

Kluge N. J. 1996a. [Myths in insect systematics and principles of zoological nomenclature]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 75 (4): 939–944 [In Russian].

Kluge N.J. 1999b. Mitos en sistematica y principos de nomenclatura zoological. / Myths in systematics and principles of zoological nomenclature. // In: A. Melic, J. J. de Haro, M. Mendes & I. Ribera (ed.). Evolution y filogenia de Arthropoda. // Boletin de la Sociedad entomologica aragonesa, 26 (Volumen monografico),. Zaragoza: 347–377.

Kluge N.J. 2000. Sovremennaya sistematika nasekomyh (...). [Modern systematics of insects. Part 1. Principles of systematics of living organisms and general system of insects with classification of primary wingless and paleopterous insects]. Saint-Petersburg (Lan’): 1–336. [In Russian].

Remington C. L. 1955. The “Apterygota”. // In: A century of progress in the natural sciences, California Academy of Sciences, Centennial volume: 495–505.