Taxacom: description of a new species as a replacement name

[nvazrick at yahoo.com]

Good day everyone,Here is a nomenclatural question for the Code geeks.
1. in 1901 Staudinger described ?Cigaritis Cilissa var. Maxima? from Turkey: ?Kurd. oc. (Malatya); Mesop. s. (Mardin)?. Syntypes, including 5 males and 3 females, are kept at the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universitaet.
2. The name maxima is preoccupied by Aphnaeus vulcanus var. maximus Elwes, 1893.
3. Recognizing this homonymy,?Kemal & Kocak (2005) described a new species (not a replacement name), ?Cigaritis uighurica (sp. n.)? (Type Locality: Malatya, Turkey), declared ?Synonyms: maxima Staudinger,1901 nec Elw.,1892?, provided a brief?description, designated a holotype now deposited in CESA, and listed many paratypes, none of which were selected from among the extant syntypes of maxima Staudinger. The description of uighurica (in page 44) can be found here:?https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archive.org%2Fdetails%2FCentreForEntomologicalStudiesAnkaraPriamus113&data%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cd03dcf02d7434d82d58508dc43a6919b%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638459629882120423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=FtZqxG6BeEsJQgKRvVXE66TmaKNrANFi2rSFDJN%2FJ1g%3D&reserved=0
4. Weidenhoffer & Bozano (Oct. 2007) proposed the name ?ottostaudingeri (nom. nov.)? as the replacement name for maxima Staudinger, treating uighurica Kemal & Kocak as nomen nudum and a junior objective synonym of ottostaudingeri Weidenhoffer & Bozano 2007.
5. In an Errata corrige released soon after the latter publication, Weidenhoffer & Bozano (Nov. 2007) clarified that in fact uighurica cannot be considered a nomen nudum as the taxonomic act by Kemal & Kocak, however unsatisfactory, seemed to comply with relevant provisions of the ICZN and thus it should be recognized as the valid replacement name for maxima.
Question: Does the description of a new species constitute a valid replacement for a preoccupied name?
Thank you in advance,VN

ReferencesElwes, H. J. 1892. On Butterflies collected by Mr W. Doherty in Nega and Karen Hills and in Perak Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1892 (4): 637, pl. 43: fig. 5.
Kemal, M. & Ko?ak, A. O. 2005. Annotated Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Catak Valey ( Van Province, Turkey) Priamus 11 (3): 44.
Staudinger, O. & Rebel, H. 1901. Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palearctischen Faunegebiets. Berlin: R. Friedlander and Sohn: 76.
Weidenhoffer, Z. & Bozano, G. C. 2007. Guide to the Butterflies of Palearctic Region: Lycaenidae Part III. Omnes Artes: 35.?


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