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Heterusia

Number: 13533.0
Author: Agassiz
Family: Zygaenidae
Genus: Heterusia
Journal: Nomencl. zool.
Year: 1847
Homonym Count: 3.0
Of Value: ;
Page: 521
Ref Id: 25.0
Series: (Index univ.)
Status: Unjustified emendation
Subfamily: Chalcosiinae
Superfamily: Zygaenoidea
Senior Syn: ETERUSIA
Senior Syn Author: Hope
Senior Syn Page: 445
Senior Syn Year: 1841
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygaenidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=HETERUSIA']
Memo: Fletcher & Nye (1982) stated:- An unjustified emendation of Eterusia Hope, 1841. Heterusia Agassiz is a junior homonym of Heterusia Hübner, [1831] 1825, Zuträge Samml. exot. Schmett. 3: 18, - Lepid., Geometridae. The objective replacement name is Eterusia Hope, 1841. The `Index universalis' was published as fascicle 12 of the Nomencl. zool.; Heterusia is dated from the wrapper of the fascicle, not from its title-page which is dated 1846.

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