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ABSTRACT
The genus name of the Cretaceous protostegid turtle Microstega Hooks, 1998 (type species Microstega copei Wieland, 1909) is preoccupied by Microstega Meyrick, 1890 (type species Microstega pandalis Hübner, 1825), a modern lepidopteran. The new name Kansastega McDavid & Hooks nom. nov. is proposed to replace the junior homonym, with the new combination Kansastega copei (Wieland, 1909).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank an anonymous reviewer and JVP editor G. Bever for useful comments, and D. Erhet (New Jersey State Museum) for helping put the authors in contact with each other.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
SNM discovered the homonymy between Microstega Hooks and Microstega Meyrick and drafted the manuscript. GEH conducted the research that demonstrated this turtle warranted its own genus name.