GENERIC NAMES OF THE FAMILY STAPHYLINIDAE 413 



NODYNUS Waterhouse, 1876, p. 12. 



Genotype: Nodynus nitidus Waterhouse. 

 Fixed hy : Waterhouse, 187G, p. 12, by monotypy. 

 Later citations: K. nitidus Waterhouse, by Lucas, 1920, p. 442. 

 PLATYPSILLA [Error for Platypsyllus]. 

 PLATYPSILLUS [Error for Platypsyllus]. 

 PLATYPSYLLA [Error for Platypsyllus]. 

 PLATYPSYLLUS Ritsema, 1869, p. 3. 



Qenotiipe : Platypsyllus castoris liitsema. 



Fixed by: Ritsema, 1809, p. 3, by monotypy. 



Later citations : P. ca-^toris Ritsema, by Lucas, 1920, p. 521. 



Synonymio homonyms : 



Platypstllus Westwood, 1869, p. 118. 

 Variant spellings: 



Plattpsilla LeConte, 1872, p. 804." 

 Plattpsiixus (Anonymous), 1869, p. 3." 

 PLATYPSYLLA Le Coute, 1872, p. 802 '" 

 PROTEINNUS [Error for Proteinus]. 

 PROTEINUS Latreille, 1790, p. 9, without species. 



Genotype: Proteiwus pulicarius (Linn6) (Dermestes). 



Fixed by: Latreille, 1802, p. 135, by being the first species included in the 



genus (subsequent monotypy). 

 Later citations: P. brack ypterus (Fabricius), by Latreille, 1810, p. 427; 

 by Westwood, 1838a, p. 18; by Shuckard, 1838, p. 94; by Cuvier, 1849, 

 p. 189 ; by Chenu and Desmarest, 1857, p. 118 ; by Thomson, 1859, p. 52 ; 

 by Lucas, 1920, p. 541 ; by Tottenham, 1949b, p. 353 ; not the first species 

 included. 

 Synonymio homonyms : 



Pboteinus Latreille, 1802, p. 135. 

 Proteinus Latreille, 1806, p. 298. 

 Homonyms by misidentification: 



Proteinus of Latreille, 1806. and all later authors=P*ero»tM«. 

 Synonyms : 



Pkotinxts Agassiz, 1846, p. 310. [Emendation. Not Billberg, 1820.] 

 Protinus Gemminger and Harold, 1868, p. 671. [Emendation. Not 

 Agassiz, 1846.] 

 Variant spellings : 



Peoteinnus Curtis, 1820, p. 28. 

 Protenius Otto, 1890, p. 175.*" 

 Peotinus Billberg, 1820, p. 15. 

 Protinus Agassiz, 1846, p. 310 [Emendation.] 

 Notes : This name must be moved to the Nitidulidae because of its genotype. 

 PROTENIUS [Error for Proteinus]. 



PROTINUS Agassiz, 1846, p. 310. [Not Billberg, 1820. Emendation of Pro- 

 teinus.] 

 Oenotype: Protinus pulicarius (Linn6) (Dermestes). 

 Fixed by : Agassiz, 1846, p. 310, through objective synonymy with Proteinus, 



of which pulicarius had already been fixed as genotyi)e. 

 Synonytns: (See Proteinus). 



*« Pet. Nouv. Ent., vol. 1, No. 12. 

 « Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872. 

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