24 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55(1) March 1998 Case 3023 DASYPODIDAE Borner, 1919 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): proposed emendation of spelling to DASYPODAIDAE, so removing the homonymy with DASYPODIDAE Gray, 1821 (Mammalia, Xenarthra) The late Byron A. Alexander and Charles D. Michener Snow Entomological Museum, Snow Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, U.S.A. (e-mail for Prof Michener: michener@falcon.cc.ukans.edu) Alfred L. Gardner Biological Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 20560-0111, U.S.A. (e-mail: gardner.alfred@nmnh.si.edu) Abstract. The family-group name DASYPODIDAE Borner, 1919 (Insecta, Hymenoptera) is a junior homonym of DasypopiDAE Gray, 1821 (Mammalia, Xenarthra). It is proposed that the homonymy between the two names, which relate to short-tongued bees and armadillos respectively, should be removed by emending the stem of the generic name Dasypoda Latreille, 1802, on which the insect family-group name is based, to give DASYPODAIDAE, while leaving the mammalian name (based on Dasypus Linnaeus, 1758) unchanged. Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758, the type species of Dasypus, has a wide distribution in the southern United States, Central and South America. The genus Dasypoda ranges throughout most of the Palearctic region. Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Hymenoptera; Mammalia; Xenarthra; bees; armadillos; DASYPODAIDAE; DASYPODIDAE; Dasypoda; Dasypus. 1. A colleague, Douglas Yanega, has brought to our attention the homonymous use of the family-group name DASYPODIDAE in the mammalian order Xenarthra and in the insect order Hymenoptera. 2. The mammalian family DAsypopIpAE Gray, 1821 (p. 305) was based on the armadillo genus Dasypus Linnaeus, 1758 (p. 50). Gray’s family included the single genus; he misspelled the generic name as ‘Dasipus’ and rendered the family-group name as ‘Dasipidae’, which is corrected under Article 35d(i) of the Code. 3. Linnaeus (1758) included six nominal species in Dasypus. He placed the name ‘Dasypus’ among the synonyms of D. novemcinctus (p. 51; the nine-banded armadillo) and this species is the type of the genus by Linnaean tautonymy (Article 68e(i)). Thomas (1911, p. 141) recorded that the account of the Mexican armadillo in Hernandez (1651), against which the generic name Dasypus appeared, referred to the D. novemcinctus group of species and that recognition of D. novemcinctus as the type species of Dasypus necessitated adopting Dasypus as the valid name for the genus long known (see, for example, Lydekker, 1887, pp. 140-141) as Tatusia Lesson, 1827