Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 48(3) September 1991 215 Case 2754 Scoparipes Signoret, 1880 (Insecta, Heteroptera): proposed confirmation of Cydnus latipes Westwood, 1837 as the type species Jerzy A. Lis Department of Natural History, Upper Silesian Museum, PL Sobieskiego 2, 41-902 Bytom, Poland Abstract. The purpose of this application is to confirm that the nominal species Cydnus latipes Westwood, 1837 is the type of the genus Scoparipes Signoret, 1880. The original designation was of a misidentified species. 1. Signoret (1880, p. clxxiii) described the genus Scoparipes and designated Cydnus latipes Westwood, 1837 as the type species. His paper was a report of a seance held on 24 December 1879, but availabiHty of the name Scoparipes dates from publication of the report in 1880. The specimen identified by Signoret (1880) as 'C latipes' is in W.L. Distant's collection in the Natural History Museum, London, and is from Borneo. 2. However, Java is the original type locality of Cydnus latipes Westwood, 1837 (p. 1 8). The type specimens, no. Hem. No. 63, are preserved in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford, and a female lectotype was selected by me (Lis, 1990, p. 169). 3. Personal examination (Lis, 1990, pp. 161, 165, 169) of the specimen from Borneo determined by Signoret (1880, p. clxxiii) as "Scoparipes latipes (Westwood)' has shown it to belong to 5. conviva Horvath, 1919 (p. 233), a species from Borneo. The type specimens of S. conviva are preserved in the collections of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, and I have selected a female as lectotype (Lis, 1990, p. 165). 4. Signoret (1881) applied the specific name latipes to several specimens belonging to different taxonomic species (see Lis, 1990, p. 159). 5. Distant (1902, p. 88) knew nothing of Signoret's misidentification and followed Signoret in taking Cydnus latipes Westwood, 1837 to be the type species of Scoparipes. The name Scoparipes latipes had been used in two other works by Distant ( 1 899, p. 2 1 9; 1900, p. 820) and by Lethierry & Severin (1893, p. 63); until my work (1990) the Oriental cydnidae had not been studied since the beginning of the 20th century. 6. As the nominal type species of Scoparipes Signoret, 1880 was based upon a misidentified specimen, the case is referred to the Commission under Article 70b, although both Cydnus latipes and S. conviva belong to the same genus (and subgenus Scoparipes (Lis, 1990, p. 163)). 7. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is accordingly asked: (1) to confirm that the type species of Scoparipes Signoret, 1880 is Cydnus latipes Westwood, 1837, by original designation; (2) to place on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology the name Scoparipes Signoret, 1 880 (gender: masculine), type species Cydnus latipes Westwood, 1 837, as confirmed in ( 1 ) above;
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