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Helicopis

Number: 13077.0
Author: Illiger
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Helicopis
Journal: Allg.-Lit. Ztg Halle [Jena]
Year: 1807
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: 1180
Part: (2)
Ref Id: 2902.0
Status: Suppressed name
Subfamily: Riodininae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Helicopini
Volume: 1807
Senior Syn: PLEBEJUS
Senior Syn Author: Kluk
Senior Syn Page: 89
Senior Syn Year: 1780
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Fabricius
Type Sp Journal: Mantissa Ins.
Type Sp Page: 64
Type Sp Year: 1787
Type Sp Ref Id: 9552.0
Type Sp Genus: Papilio
Type Sp: gnidus
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=HELICOPIS', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riodinidae']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- The name Helicopis [Illiger] is one of the twelve names, well-known and in general use as from the date of their publication by Fabricius in 1807, which it was discovered in 1939 had been published with different included species in an anonymous paper of Illiger's which slightly predated that of Fabricius. A full account of this unfortunate discovery has been given in the note on the name Apatura [Illiger] (the first in alphabetical order of the names concerned). It is necessary here only to note that in the interests of nomenclatorial stability the Commission was asked to suppress under its Plenary Powers all these Illiger names, thereby validating their Fabrician counterparts. This application was approved by the Commission, its decision being promulgated in its Opinion 232 (1954, Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 4 : 249-274). In that Opinion the name Helicopis [Illiger] was suppressed for the purposes both of the Law of Priority and for those of the Law of Homonymy and was placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 42. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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