Proposal to correct the date of publication of nomenclature described by Dr. Tokuichi Shiraki in “Blood-sucking insects of Formosa. I. Tabanidae”

• Published in: Medical Entomology and Zoology Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 35 - 36
• Main Author: SASAKI, Hitoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: The Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology 25.06.2015
• Subjects: nomenclature; published year; Shiraki; Tabanidae
• ISSN: 0424-7086; 2185-5609
• DOI: 10.7601/mez.66.35

The year of publication of Dr. Tokuichi Shiraki's “Blood-sucking insects of Formosa. I. Tabanidae.” was misprinted as 1918 in the English cover, and all of the following papers cited the thesis as published in 1918 and the date of publication of scientific names of new genus and species described in the thesis to be 1918. I found the date of publication written in Japanese on the back cover colophon as 31 March in Taisho 8 (=1919). The published date of the thesis should be corrected to be 31 March 1919. Based on “the Recommendation 21F. Correction of data” by ICZN, I propose to correct the date of publication of scientific names of one genus and 13 species described as new to science in the thesis from 1918 to 1919. In addition, no synonym relation is occurred when the date is corrected.