Defective taxonomic descriptions and the electronic publication fashion. A comment on Braby et al. (2024) and a rectification

Some reflections are presented on the global practice of publishing scientific works in electronic format, its demands and challenges. In this context, the recently published article by Braby et al. (2024) is discussed in relation to scientific best practice in the description of new zoological species. That article refers to numerous descriptive works that suffer from formal defects and irregularities that nullify the availability of the scientific names of the species described or proposed in them, due to non-compliance with the regulations established in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). One such case is the description of Redonda bordoni Viloria & Pyrcz, 2003 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), Bordón’s brachypterous butterfly, a species endemic to a high Andean sector of western Venezuela, whose name would not be available because its description, together with its typification, mention of the repositories of the type specimens and the explanation of the etymology of the name, were relegated to an electronic appendix presumably inaccessible (at least for a period of time). To resolve this irregularity, the species is redescribed, complying with the fundamental recommendations of the ICZN.