Taxonomic Swap 116941 (Committed on 2022-11-20)

 

iNat used to have this tribe's name as "Rhaphidosomini," which is a source of pain in the gall bladder to people who know classical grammar. Fortunately Pansare &al (2017) also felt this pain and decided to act against it. They formalised this correction on their page 253:

"The species was placed in ‘Rhaphidosomaria’ by Distant (1904), which is currently treated as tribe Rhaphidosomini of Harpactorinae (Schuh & Slater 1995, Forero 2011). The grammatically correct stem formed from the generic name Rhaphidosoma is Rhaphidosomat-, therefore the correct tribal name would be Rhaphidosomatini (Kerzhner 1992), as has been used by the Fauna Europaea website (urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:452749). Both the spelling Rhaphidosomini (e.g. Villiers 1948, Maldonado Capriles 1990, Schuh & Slater 1995, Weirauch 2008, Weirauch & Munro 2009, Forero 2011, Zhang et al. 2015) and the grammatically correct form Rhaphidosomatini (e.g. Haridass 1988, Gessé & Goula 2006, Goula et al. 2010, Ghahari et al. 2013) were used by a significant number of authors, but the tribal name is generally rarely used, and therefore no prevailing usage can obviously be recognized. We suggest to discontinue use of the spelling Rhaphidosomini and treat Rhaphidosomatini Distant, 1904 as the valid name for this tribe."

Three cheers for these authors!:
Pansare PP, Joshi NU, Boyane SS, Ghate HV (2017) First record of Rhaphidosoma atkinsoni (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from Maharashtra, India, with redescription and observations on its bionomics. Zootaxa 4303(2): 253–263. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4303.2.5. OPEN ACCESS.

 

Rhaphidosoma atkinsoni from Maharashtra (Citation)
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Added by beetledude on November 20, 2022 02:47 PM | Committed by beetledude on November 20, 2022
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