Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dalytra

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The result was withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Leomk0403 (Don't shout here, Shout here!) 01:02, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dalytra

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I'm doubting the validity of this genus. No refs, and a WP:BEFORE search turned up article and cats and yahoo search and some archive.org. Leomk0403 (Don't shout here, Shout here!) 02:48, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 11:04, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep: The reason you are finding so few references is because most online sources erroneously place these species in the genus Alcmena, which is a permanently invalid junior homonym (see [1] for proof). For one glaring example, see [2]. Just because some online sources are erroneous does not oblige Wikipedia to propagate these errors. Dalytra does definitively exist - see the reference linked in the article itself, and also [3], [4] - and is the oldest available name for the permanently unavailable Alcmena. Dyanega (talk) 16:48, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dyanega: are there three confusing taxon here? GBIF has:

Alcmena Stål, 1859(accepted) which is Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
Alcmena C.L.Koch, 1846(doubtful)
Dalytra Stål, 1861 which is Entomologische_Zeitung p. 131

fiveby(zero) 20:22, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, Alcmena Stål, 1859 (Homonym) in infobox i think explains it. fiveby(zero) 21:05, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alcmena Stål, 1859 should not be accepted by anyone; that is an error, since Koch's name is available and has seniority. The circumstances allowing a junior primary homonym to be adopted as valid do not apply here, if only because Art. 23.9.1.2 could not possibly be satisfied. Dyanega (talk) 21:49, 24 January 2022 (UTC) (I should note that both GBIF and BioLib are not trustworthy sources, as both are quite often wrong; GBIF especially so, and a distressingly large number of editors seem to give it entirely undeserved, uncritical acceptance). Dyanega (talk) 21:52, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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