A replacement name for Dichomeris paulianella Viette, 1957 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae).

By transferring Lecithocera paulianella Viette, 1955 to the genus Dichomeris (Gelechiidae), Park, Koo Minet (2020: 155, 173) caused a nomenclatorial problem (see Art. 52.1) since in that genus there exists already a species Dichomeris paulianella Viette, 1957 which by this action becomes a junior secondary homonym (see Art. 53.3). Though the authors were aware of this homonymy, they refrained from proposing a replacement name (Park et al. 2020: 174). In order to make it possible to distinguish both taxa by their names and prevent future confusion, we herewith propose Dichomeris pauliani De Prins Koo, nom. nov. as the objective replacement name (see Art. 60.3) for Dichomeris paulianella Viette, 1957.