Eurymus
| Number: | 11275.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Horsfield | |
| Family: | Pieridae | |
| Genus: | Eurymus | |
| Journal: | Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy | |
| Page Comment: | misidentified type-species ! | |
| Year: | 1829 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 134 | |
| Part: | (2) | |
| Ref Id: | 10042.0 | |
| Status: | Junior homonym | |
| Subfamily: | Coliadinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Senior Syn: | COLIAS | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Fabricius | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 284 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1807 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | by original designation | |
| Type Sp Author: | Linnaeus | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/490/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema Naturae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 469 | |
| Type Sp Series: | (Edn 10) | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1758 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 3527.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | hyale | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=EURYMUS', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieridae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- When it was realized that under the Code the type-species of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807, was Papilio rhamni Linnaeus, 1758, and therefore that that generic name could not be used any longer for Papilio hyale Linnaeus and the other "Clouded Yellows" (the "Sulphurs"), the name Eurymus Horsfield was adopted by those specialists - a minority only - who decided to abandon the use of the name Colias for this group. The reluctance to give up the name Colias for this group and instead to use it for the "Brimstones" in place of the name Gonepteryx Leach was so strong that ultimately the Commission was asked to use its Plenary Powers to designate Papilio hyale as the type-species. As has been explained in the note under the name Colias, this request was approved by the Commission by its Opinion 146 published in 1943. Thereupon, the name Eurymus Horsfield became a junior objective synonym of Colias Fabricius, 1807. For quite another reason, and one which had been overlooked by those specialists who at one time used the name Eurymus Horsfield for Papilio hyale and its allies, that generic name was - and always had been - invalid, for it was a junior homonym of the name Eurymus Rafinesque, 1815 (Analyse Nature : 117). Horsfield stated that the name Eurymus was a manuscript name of Swainson's ; two years after the appearance of Horsfield's Catalogue, it was actually published by Swainson (1831, Zool. Illustr. (2) 2 (13) : pl. 60). The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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