Aaaaba

Aaaaba
Aaaaba nodosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Buprestidae
Subfamily: Agrilinae
Tribe: Coraebini
Subtribe: Cisseina
Genus: Aaaaba
Bellamy, 2013
Synonyms
  • Alcinous Deyrolle, 1864 (preoccupied by Alcinous Costa, 1812)
  • Aaaba Bellamy, 2002 (preoccupied by Aaaba de Laubenfels, 1936)

Aaaaba is a genus of beetles from the Buprestidae family. It inhabits locations along the east coast of Australia. It was described in 1864 by Achille Deyrolle as "Alcinous", a junior homonym of a genus of pycnogonids.[1] In 2002, Charles Bellamy gave it the replacement name "Aaaba", but this proved to be another junior homonym, of a genus of sponges. In 2013, it was given a further replacement name, becoming Aaaaba.[2]

There are two species within this genus:

The genus name is feminine under ICZN Article 30.2.4 ("If no gender was specified or indicated, the name is to be treated as masculine, except that, if the name ends in -a the gender is feminine").[3]

  1. ^ "Genus Aaaba Bellamy, 2002". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. April 4, 2013. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  2. ^ C. L. Bellamy (2013). "Aaaaba Bellamy, a second replacement name for Alcinous Deyrolle, 1864 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 67 (1): 32. doi:10.1649/072.067.0107. S2CID 85160361.
  3. ^ ICZN Article 30.2.4