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A homonimy in Psyllidae (Homoptera): a new name for Neopelma Burckhardt¹

 

 

Fernando Costa Straube^I; Michel Miretzki^I,II

^IMülleriana, Sociedade Fritz Müller de Ciências Naturais. Caixa Postal 1644, 80001-970 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. E-mail: mulleriana@milenio.com.br
^IIMuseu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia, Prefeitura Municipal de Curitiba. Rua Professor Benedito Conceição 407, 82810-080 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

 

 

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ABSTRACT

Burckhardtia nom. nov. is proposed for Neopelma Burckhardt, 1987 (Psyllidae, Homoptera), preoccupied by Neopelma Sclater, 1860 (Pipridae, Aves).

Key words: Homoptera, Psyllidae, Neopelma, Burckhardtia, homonimy, Aves.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. To Rodney Cavichioli, Paulo H. Labiak and Ana L.C. Prudente for the warning and providing literature.

 

REFERENCES

Burckhardt, D. 1987. Jumping plant lice (Homoptera: Psylloidea) of the temperate neotropical region. Part 1: Psyllidae (subfamilies Aphalarinae, Rhinocolinae and Aphalaroidinae). Zool. Journ. Linnean Soc. 89: 299-392.         [ Links ]

Sclater, P.L. 1860. Characters of ten new species of American birds. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 28: 461-467.         [ Links ]

Snow, D. 1979. Pipridae, p. 245-280. In: M.A. Traylor Jr. (Ed.) Peters' Checklist of the birds of the world. Cambridge, Museum of Comparative Zoology.         [ Links ]

Whitney, B.M.; J.F. Pacheco & R. Parrini. 1995. Two species of Neopelma in southeastern Brazil and diversification within the Neopelma/Tyranneutes complex: implications of the subspecies concept for conservation (Passeriformes: Tyrannidae). Ararajuba 3: 43-53.         [ Links ]

 

 

Recebido em 26.XI.1998; aceito em 07.X.1999.

 

 

1 Contribuição número 1151 do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná.