Ghrejyan Tigran, Kalashian Mark
Institute of Zoology, Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, P. Sevak str., 7, Yerevan, 014, Armenia..
Zootaxa. 2017 Feb 9;4231(1):zootaxa.4231.1.6. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.1.6.
The history of usage of the name Cetonia floricola fausti Kraatz, 1891 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) is discussed. In recent publications, the name Protaetia (Potosia) fausti was applied to a taxon that is not conspecific with Kraatz's holotype. We therefore reassign the name Cetonia fausti Kraatz, 1891 as a junior synonym of Protaetia splendidula (Faldermann, 1835) and discuss the justification for this synonymy. The taxon that was erroneously called Protaetia fausti in recent papers actually includes two distinct species: Protaetia jelineki (Petrovitz, 1981) and a species described in this paper as Protaetia (Potosia) haiastanica new species from northwestern and central Armenia and southwestern Georgia.
讨论了1891年克氏花萤丽金龟（鞘翅目：金龟科：丽金龟亚科）名称的使用历史。在最近的出版物中，“福氏花金龟Protaetia (Potosia) fausti”这一名称被用于一个与克氏模式标本不同种的分类单元。因此，我们将1891年克氏的“福氏丽金龟Cetonia fausti”重新指定为华丽花金龟Protaetia splendidula（法尔德曼，1835年）的次异名，并讨论了这种异名关系的依据。近期论文中被错误地称为“福氏花金龟Protaetia fausti”的分类单元实际上包含两个不同的物种：耶氏花金龟Protaetia jelineki（彼得罗维茨，1981年）以及本文中描述的来自亚美尼亚西北部和中部以及格鲁吉亚西南部的新物种——哈氏花金龟Protaetia (Potosia) haiastanica。
