Ctenobittacus Villet, 2025

Villet, Martin H., 2025, Replacement name for the homonymous genus Ctenophlebia Hong, 2009, not Stål, 1873 (Insecta: Mecoptera), Zootaxa 5588 (4), pp. 599-600 : 600

Genus Ctenobittacus Villet , new replacement name

≡ Ctenophlebia Hong, 2009: 425 , not Stål, 1873 (type species: Ctenophlebia tongchuanensis Hong, 2009 by original designation and monotypy, carried over to Ctenobittacus nom. nov.)

Ctenobittacus tongchuanensis ( Hong, 2009) new combination

≡ Ctenophlebia tongchuanensis Hong, 2009: 425–426 , Figs 5–7

The grammatical gender of Ctenobittacus nom. nov. is masculine, in alignment with that of Bittacus . Ctenobittacus was not used for any genus of metazoan on the Index to Organism Names ( Clarivate Analytics 2009), Paleobiology ( Uhen et al. 2023b), EDNA fossil insect ( Mitchell 2013), Catalogue of Life ( Bánki et al. 2024), Encyclopedia of Life ( Anonymous 2024), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF.org 2024) or Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera ( Rees 2023) on-line databases at the time of writing, all accessed on 11 January 2025.

Acknowledgements —I warmly thank Daniel W. Hall and André Nel for kindly reviewing this work, which was logistically supported by Rhodes University, South Africa.

Conflict of interest statement —The authors have no conflicts of interest to report.