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Epimede

Number: 10072.0
Author: Houlbert
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40060#page/680/mode/2up
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Epimede
Journal: Étud. Lépid. comp.
Year: 1922
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 132, 142, 160
Part: (2)
Ref Id: 2812.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Satyrini
Volume: 19
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des: by original designation
Type Sp Author: Oberthür & Houlbert
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31193#page/712/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: C. r. hebd. Séanc. Acad. Sci. Paris
Type Sp Page: 707, pl.2, figs 1-8
Type Sp Part: (10)
Type Sp Volume: 174
Type Sp Year: 1922
Type Sp Ref Id: 4292.0
Type Sp Genus: Halimede
Type Sp: menetriesi
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=EPIMEDE', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- The name Halimede menetriesi was introduced quite unnecessarily as a replacement for the name Arge halimede Ménétriés, 1858, Oberthur & Houlbert taking the view (erroneously) that, following the erection for this species of a genus bearing the name Halimede, the specific name halimede Ménétriés could no longer be maintained. As originally published, the nominal species Arge halimede Ménétriés was a composite ; the specimen described as the male of this species belongs to the taxon which has always been known by the name halimede Ménétriés, and is now the lectotype of the nominal species so named by Ménétriés ; the specimen treated by Ménétriés as the female of his Arge halimede is actually a male and belongs to an entirely different species, namely the taxon bearing the name Melanargia meridionalis Feld., var. epimede Staudinger, 1892 (in Romanoff, Mém. Lép. 6 : 196). [The earlier name Melanargia halimede var.? meridionalis (epimede Staudinger in litt.), 1887, though commonly used, is invalid, because it was published in synonymy.] It will be seen from the particulars given above that the name Halimede Ménétriés Oberthur & Houlbert, 1922, the type-species of the present genus, is a junior objective synonym of Arge halimede Ménétriés, 1858 (Bull. phys. math. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. 17 : 216) male - nec "female" [which is a male of Melanargia meridionalis Feld., var. epimede Staudinger, 1892]. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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Dataset buttmoth
Dataset ID f8bc9b9c-009a-4689-bd01-ed621095c457
Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c