LIST OF GENERIC NAMES AND THEIR TYPE-SPECIES IN 

 THE COLEOPTEROUS SUPERFAMILY SCOLYTOIDEA. 1 



By A. D. Hopkins, 



Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The superfamily Scolytoidea is here proposed to include certain 

 allied groups of genera of Coleoptera heretofore placed in the families 

 Bostrichidse by Erichson, 1836; Scolytidse by Gemminger and Harold, 

 1872, and other authors to 1906; Ipidse by Reitter, 1906, and Hage- 

 dorn, 1910, and Platypidse by Chapuis, 1865. 



In selecting the type-species of described genera and subgenera the 

 author has been guided by the rules and recommendations of the 

 International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. In the case 

 of the generic name Scolytus Geoffrey the advice of the local members 

 of the commission, Drs. C. W. Stiles and Leonhard Stejneger, has been 

 sought, and they have agreed that it is perfectly valid, with Bostriclius 

 scolytus Fabricius, designated by Curtis, 1824, as the type. 2 



Types of genera were designated by Latreille, Considerations Gener- 

 ates, 1810; by Curtis, British Entomology, 1824 to 1839; by Lacor- 

 daire, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coleopteres, 1866; and in all 

 cases where such designations conform to the present rules in men- 

 tioning "type" or "type of genus" they must be accepted unless 

 otherwise barred by synonymy. 



J. O. Westwood, in his Synopsis of the Genera of British Insects, 

 1840, mentions "typical" indigenous species which represent the 

 genera, but it would appear that none of these can be accepted as the 

 types of genera except when they have been so designated by subse- 

 quent authors. Therefore, such designations would date from the 

 year in which the designations are made and not from the date of 

 Westwood's publication. However, we are giving both the species 

 cited by Westwood as typical species, as well as the first type fixation 

 made after the date of Westwood. 



No attempt is made in this list to indicate the synonyms and no 

 distinction is made between generic and subgeneric names, but an 



1 This is a contribution toward a monograph of the scolytoid beetles. Other contributions published 

 and in press are: Technical Series No. 17, Part 1 (published), Part 2 (in press), Bureau of Entomology, 

 and Report No. 99 (in press), office of the Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture. 



a See Technical Series No. 17, Part 2, Bureau of Entomology, for further evidence on this point. 



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