Corrigenda: Mullins PL, Kawada R, Balhoff JP, Deans AR (2012) A revision of Evaniscus (Hymenoptera, Evaniidae) using ontology-based semantic phenotype annotation. ZooKeys 223: 1–38, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.223.3572

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Several errors came to our attention after our manuscript was published, which we address here. First, we uploaded the wrong table for Appendix C, which was supposed to have verbose descriptions of material examined. We also neglected to provide complete repository names for the museum codens. We regret these errors and provide these data here in Table 1 and in an updated Appendix C. Table 1. Specimen repositories from Mullins et al. 2012. At least one reader was confused about our observations of type specimens and the subsequent designation of Evaniscus sulcigenis Roman, 1917 as a junior subjective synonym of Evaniscus rufithorax Enderlein, 1905. We observed the type specimen of Evaniscus sulcigenis directly (specimen data in the corrected Appendix C below; see also Figs 1, 2) and neglected to include that declaration and the listing of Evaniscus sulcigenis as a junior subjective synonym in the taxonomic treatment of Evaniscus rufithorax. Figure 1. Evaniscus sulcigenis Roman, 1917. Lateral habitus (whole body) of holotype. Figure 2. Evaniscus sulcigenis Roman, 1917. Lateral habitus (mesosma and head) of holotype. Finally, a number of typos persisted in the manuscript despite our intention to properly vet the taxonomic treatments. We offer our corrections to help resolve any confusion: Our database had two entries for each type specimen, and so the type data was listed twice in each treatment. This error has been fixed in the database. Pseudevania is not a misspelling of Evaniscus but rather a junior objective synonym (Deans 2005). This error has been fixed in the database. The type specimens for Evaniscus marginata (Cameron, 1887) and Evaniscus tibialis Szepligeti 1903 are not necessarily holoypes. Neither Cameron nor Szepligeti explicitly designate holotypes, nor did they list all specimens examined in their treatments of these species. Each type specimen is deposited at the taxonomist’s home institution (BMNH for Cameron and HNHM for Szepligeti), and we are unaware of any other specimens that would have been available for observation at the time. The repository for the holotype of Evaniscus lansdownei Mullins should be IAVH, not NCSU.