Festivus
| Number: | 11700.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Crotch | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41151#page/90/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Festivus | |
| Journal: | Cist. ent. | |
| Year: | 1872 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 62 | |
| Part: | [4] | |
| Ref Id: | 1160.0 | |
| Status: | Junior objective synonym | |
| Subfamily: | Danainae | |
| Subtribe: | Danaina | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Danaini | |
| Volume: | 1 | |
| Senior Syn: | DANAUS | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Kluk | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 83 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1780 | |
| 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/492/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema Naturae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 471 | |
| 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: | plexippus | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=FESTIVUS', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- The term "Festivus" is one of a number of words used by Linnaeus (1758, loc. cit. : 470) to denote groups of species within the genus Papilio. Many years later these terms were the cause of considerable confusion owing to claims being advanced on their behalf that they should be treated as having acquired the status of subgeneric names as from the date on which they were originally published in the XVIIIth century. This unsatisfactory situation persisted until the foregoing claim was categorically rejected by the Commission in its Opinion 124 (1936, Smithson. miscell. Coll. 73 (No. 8) : 1-2 ; republished in facsimile in 1958 (Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 1 (B) : 465-466). In the meantime some of these terms had been published in genuine binominal form by authors who attributed them wrongly to Linnaeus but who must themselves be treated as the authors, since it was through their action alone that these terms acquired status in nomenclature. In the present case the first author of this kind was Crotch and the name Festivus must therefore be attributed to him. The type-species of Festivus Crotch is Papilio plexippus Linnaeus, by designation by Crotch. The name Festivus Crotch is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of Danaus Kluk, 1802. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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