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Of course. Is this controversial? Might not be very helpful if one designated a larva as the Holotype- though in cases like the Australian Brachypsectra there may be a justification to be made - especially if there was DNA support M Maxwell V. L. Barclay Senior Curator in Charge Insects: Coleoptera 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 recent TEDx talk at the Royal Albert Hall is now online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGcu8WwheUU Check out our Beetle Blog<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/beetles/2013/01/03/happy-new-year-2013-from-the-coleoptera-team> Twitter: @Coleopterist Facebook: 'Friends of Coleoptera'<http://tinyurl.com/c9pohyf> Flickr: see our photostream<http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/> for the best images of NHM beetles ________________________________ From: Entomological Collections Network Listserve [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Michael A. Ivie [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 05 July 2017 21:08 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Larval paratypes Question for the group. The Code Says: 72.4.1. The type series of a nominal species-group taxon consists of all the specimens included by the author in the new nominal taxon... 72.4.5. When an author designates a holotype [Art. 73.1<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/includes/page.jsp?nfv=&article=73#1>], then the other specimens of the type series are paratypes. If a species is described and diagnosed on the basis of both the adult and larva, the larvae used are part of the types species under 72.4.1, and the specimens are paratypes under 72.4.5, no? If you disagree, please explain why, other than that they could be expressly excluded. Thanks, Mike -- __________________________________________________ Michael A. Ivie, Ph.D., F.R.E.S. NOTE: two addresses with different Zip Codes depending on carriers US Post Office Address: Montana Entomology Collection Marsh Labs, Room 50 PO Box 173145 Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717 USA UPS, FedEx, DHL Address: Montana Entomology Collection Marsh Labs, Room 50 1911 West Lincoln Street Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59718 USA (406) 994-4610 (voice) (406) 994-6029 (FAX) [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>