NO. 2 OPINIONS 78 TO 81 29 



of Fabricius in another genus, Salda, can have no influence 

 on Curtis's right, in 1835, to designate it as type of Acanthia 

 Fabricius. 



As shown above, Acanthia, up to the year 1829, had not 

 any vaHd type designation, and was consequently still poly- 

 typic. Fallen in this year did not alter the status of Acanthia; 

 he only mentioned lectularia as one of the species, but gave 

 a substitute name, Clinocoris. Consequently, Clinocoris at 

 that date was equally polytypic, and must share the fate of 

 AcantJiia. It now appears that on the same occasion he also 

 relegated Acanthia litt oralis to another genus, Salda. The 

 question then arises : Does this action of Fallen in placing 

 A. litt oralis in another genus nullify Curtis' explicit designa- 

 tion, in 1835, of littoralis as the type of Acanthia? Is there 

 anything in Code Art. 30 which makes this action of Curtis 

 invalid? These questions, it seems to me, have already been 

 answered in Opinion 62 which specifically provides that 

 Article 30 does not even exclude type species of other genera 

 from consideration in the subsequent selection of the type 

 of a given genus. The fact that Fallen removed littoralis 

 to another genus, Salda, consequently does not bar its desig- 

 nation by Curtis in 1835, since even if he had made it the 

 type of Salda (and so he may have done for all I know) that 

 fact would not have invalidated the designation of littoralis 

 as type of Acanthia. Fallen, in 1829, did not make a new 

 genus Clinocoris, he only suggested a new name for an old 

 genus, and this substitute name must ipso facto have the 

 same designated type. If littoralis is the type of Salda, Salda 

 also becomes a synonym of Acanthia. 



D. In case of doubt, the following points are to be held 

 in mind under Recommendations (h to t) of Art. 30 : 



1829: C. lectularius is on the preferred list under 

 (h, n, p, q, and t). 



1829: C. Icctidarius (known as Kopi? by Aristo- 

 phanes; Ko'pi? (Itto kAu't/s by Discorides), is to be selected 

 ("unless such preference is strongly contraindicated 

 by other factors") under (i) Virtual tautonymy : 

 r; KAm;. a coucli ; lectuliis, a little bed ; 6 ko/jis, a bug. 



? 1829 : Acanthia lectularia by Monotypy, by Fallen, 

 1829, 141. This is open to debate. Certain it is that 

 this is the species which Fallen had especially in mind. 

 A difference of opinion seems, however, inevitable, as 



