44 Bull. zool. Norn., vol. 43, pt 1 , April 1986 OPINION 1382 ZEUGOPHORA KUNZE, 1818 (INSECTA, COLEOPTERA): CONSERVED RULING. — (1) Under the plenary powers the generic name Auchenia Thunberg, 1792, is hereby suppressed for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy. (2) The name Zeugophora Kunze, 1818 (gender: feminine), type species by subsequent designation by Westwood, 1838, Crioceris subspinosa Fabricius, 1781, is hereby placed on the Official List of Generic Names of Zoology. (3) The name subspinosa Fabricius, 1781, as published in the binomen Crioceris subspinosa (specific name of the type species of Zeugophora Kunze, 1818) is hereby placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology. (4) The name Auchenia Thunberg, 1792, as suppressed under the plenary powers in (1) above is hereby placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology. HISTORY OF THE CASE Z.N.(S.)2405 An application for the conservation o{ Zeugophora Kunze, 1818 was first received from Dr H. Silfverberg {Zoological Museum of the University ofHelsingJ'ors, Finland) on 22 January 1982. It was sent to the printers on 5 October 1983 and published in Bull. zool. Norn., vol. 40, pp. 252-254. Public notice of the possible use of the plenary powers was given in the same part of the Bulletin as well as to ten general and nine entomological serials. No comment was received. DECISION OF THE COMMISSION On 16 September 1985 the members of the Commission were invited to vote under the Three-Month Rule on Voting Paper (1985) 56 for or against the proposals set out in Bull. zool. Norn. vol. 40, p. 253. At the close of the voting period on 16 December 1985 the state of the voting was as follows: Affirmative Votes — twenty-three (23) received in the following order: Melville, Holthuis, Cocks, Willink, Savage, Kabata, Corliss, Alvarado, Ueno, Hahn, Starobogatov, Trjapitzin, Mroczkowski, Zheng, Cogger, Lehtinen, Bernardi, Ride, Thompson, Halvorsen, Schuster, Dupuis, Heppell Negative Votes — none (0). Bayer returned a late affirmative vote. No votes were returned by Gruchy and Kraus.
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