[Taxacom] Correct name of the Wasp Spider

[John Noyes]

If Morten Thrane Brünnich was a Danish Zoologist then isn't it a Danish word and the "ü" replaced by a "u" and not "ue"? 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Paul van Rijckevorsel
Sent: 08 July 2017 08:52
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Correct name of the Wasp Spider

For completeness sake, the -e- will have been added because it was (presumably) named after the Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich. As governed by Article 32.5.2.1 an umlaut in a German word (or a word about which there is doubt as to its provenance) is to be deleted and an -e- is to be added.

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Yanega" <dyanega at ucr.edu>
To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Correct name of the Wasp Spider


> On 7/7/17 5:14 AM, Dilrukshan Wijesinghe wrote:
>> This is a classic case of nomenclatural busybodies "correcting" original 
>> spellings to their notion of what a name should be, without following the 
>> original spelling. The same thing has happened with numerous other spider 
>> names (and no doubt with the names of other animal species). To take 
>> another spider example: the original spelling of the name of the 
>> pantropical jumping spider which is usually given as "Plexippus paykulli" 
>> (with one terminal i) was Attus paykullii, described by Audouin in 1826. 
>> With its transfer to the genus Plexippus the name should, of course, be 
>> written as Plexippus paykullii (Audouin, 1826), yet the World Spider 
>> Catalog (http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/32089/Plexippus_paykulli) gives 
>> it as Plexippus paykulli. Roewer (1954, Katalog der Araneae, 2b, p. 1086) 
>> gives this name correctly as Plexippus paykullii.
>> I think the wholesale changing of -ii to -i for the names of spiders was 
>> introduced in the more recent spider catalogs.
>
> There is a Code Article for this specific type of change (below), and the 
> same rule (33.3.1) applies; if the incorrect spelling is in prevailing 
> usage, then it *becomes* correct, accordingly. If the only place these 
> spider names are spelled "-i" is in the catalogs, then they might not 
> qualify as being in prevailing usage (also below).
>
> "33.4.Use of -/i/for -/ii/and vice versa, and other alternative spellings, 
> in subsequent spellings of species-group names.The use of the genitive 
> ending -/i/in a subsequent spelling of a species-group name that is a 
> genitive based upon a personal name in which the correct original spelling 
> ends with -/ii/, or vice versa, is deemed to be an incorrect subsequent 
> spelling, even if the change in spelling is deliberate; the same rule 
> applies to the endings -/ae/and -/iae/, -/orum/and -/iorum/, 
> and -/arum/and -/iarum/."
>
> "*usage, prevailing*,/n/.
>
> Of a name: that usage of the name which is adopted by *at least a 
> substantial majority of the most recent authors* concerned with the 
> relevant taxon, *irrespective of how long ago* their work was published." 
> (emphasis mine, to highlight that one calculates usage by counting 
> AUTHORS, not works, and that one can go back as far as one deems necessary 
> to assess the pattern).
>
> I'm not pointing this out to start a debate over the pros and cons of 
> "prevailing usage", only to point out that these provisions do exist, and 
> that the reason these provisions exist is so people won't keep changing 
> spelling back and forth based on finding old forgotten references, and 
> arguments over grammar. The "novel" principle that the 2000 Code edition 
> introduced is that stability is best achieved through consensus (rather 
> than incessant one-upmanship as to who can dredge up the oldest and most 
> obscure references, or make the most scholarly foray into the nuances of 
> Latin grammatical construction). It is unfortunately hard to come up with 
> a purely objective criterion as to what, exactly, constitutes "consensus", 
> so the definition of prevailing usage adopted is not perfect, but it's an 
> approximation. Names can be rendered *permanently* unalterable via the 
> List of Available Names (LAN: Article 79), but that's a special and 
> difficult process.
>
> Peace,
>
> -- 
> Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
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