GENERIC NAMES OF THE FAMILY STAPHYLESTIDAE 67 



ASTYCOPS Thomson— Continued 

 Synonyms : ( See Bledius). 

 Variant spellings : 



AsTicoPS Bertoliui, 1872, p. 67. 

 ASTYCTUS [Error for Astictus]. 



ATACTA Cameron, 1939e, p. oGO. [Junior homonym of Atacta Schiner, 1868. 

 Synonym of Tacata.] 

 Genotype: Atacta floralis (Bernhauer) (Atheta). 



Fixed by: Cameron, 1939e, p. 561, by original designation and monotypy. 

 Synonyms: (See Tacata). 

 ATANYGNATHUS Jakobson, 1909, p. 520. 



Genotype: Atanygnatlins terminalis (Erichson) (Tanygnathus). 

 Fixed by: Jacobson, 1909, p. 520, through objective synonymy with Tany- 

 gnathus Erichson, of whicli tei-minalis had already been fixed by genotype. 

 Later citations: A. terminalis (Erichson), by Blackwelder, 1943, p. 471. 

 Synonyms : 



Tanygnathus Erichson, 1839a, p. 417. [Objective. Not Wagler, 1832.] 

 Tanygnathinus Reitter, 1909, p. 105. [Objective.] 

 ATEMELES Dillwyn, 1829, p. 63. [Synonym of Lomechusa.] 

 Genotype: Atemeles paradoxa (Gravenhorst) (Lomcchusa). 

 Fixed by : Westwood, 183Sa, p. 20. by subsequent designation. 

 Later citations: A. paradoxa (Gravenhorst), by Shuckard, 1639, p. 129; by 

 Duponchel and Chevrolat, 1842, p. 287 ; by Thomson, 1859, p. 29 ; by Fenyes, 

 1918, p. 21; by Tottenham, 1949b, p. 397; originally included as acumi- 

 natu-s. 

 Discussion: Atemeles was validated by the citation of an older preoccupied 

 name {Goniodes Stephens) in synonymy. It therefore included only the 

 two species placed in Goniodes, acuminatus and strumosns. The manu- 

 script name acuminatus had been validated by Stephens by the citation 

 in its synonymy of paradoxa Gyllenhal (= Gravenhorst). A. paradoxa 

 may be cited as genotype because of the objective synonymy with acumi- 

 natus, which is the name actually used by Dillwyn for this species. 

 Synonymic homonyms : 



Atemeles Stephens, 1832, p. 107. 

 Synonyms: (See Lomechuso) 



Goniodes Stephens, 1829, p. 260. [Objective. Not Nitzsch, 1818.] 

 Variant spellings : 



Atimeles LeConte, 1861, p. 61. 

 Atomeles Brulle, 1837, p. 107. 

 Attemeles Siebke, 1875, p. 141.°" 

 ATHAETA [Evvor for Atheta]. 

 ATHATA [Error for Athetar]. 

 ATHEDA [Error for Atheta]. 

 ATHELA [Error for AtJieta]. 



ATHETA Thomson, 1858, p. 36 (without species). [Subgenus of Ischnopoda.] 

 Genotype: Atheta graminicola (Gravenhorst) {Aleochara). 

 Fiwed by : Thomson, 1859, p. 39, by subsequent designation and by being the 

 first species included by name. 



^ finumeratio insectorum Norvogicorum, fasc. 2, 334 pp. Christiania. 



