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I would go for option ‘c’ – c) Oxystermom [sic] (Oxystermom) [sic] festixum [sic] festixum [sic] - otherwise it looks like one ‘festixum’ is correct (and this does happen, where minor variant spellings exist and are correct e.g ‘Typhoeus typhaeus’) M Maxwell V. L. Barclay Curator and Collection Manager Entomology: Coleoptera & Hemiptera Department of Life Sciences Natural History Museum London SW7 5BD T: 0207 942 5911 M: 07766331806 E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> My TEDx talk at the Royal Albert Hall is now available online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGcu8WwheUU NHM Webpage<http://tinyurl.com/cas5fdk> Beetle Blog<http://tinyurl.com/dxjro9b> Facebook: 'Friends of Coleoptera'<http://tinyurl.com/c9pohyf> Twitter: @Coleopterist From: Scarab Beetle Taxonomy Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Auke Hielkema Sent: 07 May 2016 21:35 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Use of 'sic' Hi All, If I'm citing from a publication in which a nominal subgenus or nominal subspecies is spelled wrong, how do you suggest I proceed with the term "[sic]"? Only after the first error, only after the last error, or after each error? a) Oxystermom [sic] (Oxystermom) festixum [sic] festixum b) Oxystermom (Oxystermom) [sic] festixum festixum [sic] c) Oxystermom [sic] (Oxystermom) [sic] festixum [sic] festixum [sic] I have not encountered names in which both genus and species were spelled wrong, the above is just an example I made up. Option c) appears the best to me, but it looks kind of funny when both name and "[sic]" are repeated. Thanks you in advance, Auke