THE CORRECT NAME FOR OUR APPLE-GRAIN APHIS

In our name.

If you live in one of the big cities of the UK, including London, you may be familiar with the long white security vans that speed along our streets in the early morning and evening. Each of them has a few small darkened windows. You probably recognise them as prison vans. Like me, you may have assumed that the people inside were all suspected criminals on their way to court at the beginning of...

The correct name for a section of Ludwigia L. (Onagraceae)

In 1953, Hara provided new combinations for many sectional and species names when he combined Jussiaea L. with Ludwigia L., and at the time, Ludwigiasect.Oligospermum (Micheli) H.Hara was the correct name for one well-defined section. However, subsequent changes to/clarifications of the botanical code have necessitated a change for that name in that now an autonym is treated as having priority ...

The correct name in Oenothera for Gaura drummondii (Onagraceae)

In 2007, Wagner and Hoch proposed the new name Oenotheraxenogaura W.L.Wagner & Hoch for the species then known as Gauradrummondii (Spach) Torrey & A. Gray (non Oenotheradrummondii Hooker, 1834). However, the authors overlooked the availability of Gaurahispida Bentham (1840) for this species. Accordingly, we herewith make the appropriate new combination for this species, Oenotherahispida (Bentha...

The correct name of the neotropical soybean bug (Hemiptera: Alydidae).

A species of Neomegalotomus is an occasional pest of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] in the neotropics, including in Brazil. It was known as Neomegalotomus parvus (Westwood); but the discovery of the type specimen of a species described earlier requires that the name be changed to Neomegalotomus simplex (Westwood), which becomes the correct name for the soybean pest.

On the correct name of Icterus bullockii (Passeriformes: Icteridae).