Malthodes sanbernardensis K. M. Fender, 1966 emend. (nom. corr.) Malthodes sanbernadensis K. M. Fender, 1966: 221 (text and figs. 7-8)-222 incorrect original spelling Malthodes sanbernardensis Poole & Gentili, 1996: 77, 757 “incorrect” subsequent spelling (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.3., 33.5.). Note. This species in the original description is named Malthodes sanbernadensis Fender, 1966 (nomen imperfectum) with the type locality: “Seven Oaks, San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino County, California ” (Fender 1966). This original name is evidently incorrect, an inadvertent error (lapsus calami), because the second “r” is missing and therefore is emended here in Malthodes sanbernardensis justified emendation (ICZN 1999: Art. 19.2., 32.2.2., 32.5., 33.2.2., 50.4). The original name is evidently incorrect also because the same author subsequently described (with the correct name) Pseudoabsidia sanbernardensis from the same locality “San Bernardino Co.” (Fender 1972). “Bernardino” is a diminutive, altered variant of “Bernardo”, a personal name of Germanic origin with the root Bern + hard. The incorrect specific name “ sanbernadensis ” has never been amended, therefore there is no first reviewer and we find only the original spelling (Delkeskamp 1977: 423, 1978: 545 index) except a “correct” Malthodes sanbernardensis in Poole & Gentili (1996), which is not in a prevailing usage (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2.3.1., Art. 33.3.1.). This name, although correct (in the work the authors Poole & Gentili put the original spelling of the names, in this specific case however, they have a lapsus calami which by a simple combination becomes "right”), cannot be considered a justified emendation as, according to the Code, it is not an intentional emendation (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2., Art. 33.2.1), as the authors (Poole & Gentili 1996) specify (many times) not to make any emendations in their work, and report only the already existing emendations (Poole & Gentili 1996: pages 7-10) and because both the original name and the modified spelling are not mentioned (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2.1.) nor in the work there are two or more names treated in a similar way (ICZN 1999: Art. 33.2.1.). 62

Published as part of Fanti, Fabrizio, 2023, Some taxonomical notes on North American soldier beetles, pp. 61-64 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 23 (1) on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.59893/bjc.23(1).005, http://zenodo.org/record/13203680