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Hurworthia

Number: 13937.0
Author: Nye
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Hurworthia
Journal: Generic Names Moths World
Year: 1975
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 245
Ref Id: 4263.0
Status: Objective replacement name
Subfamily: Calpinae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Volume: 1
Type Country: AUSTRALIA
Type Depository: (ANIC, Canberra)
Type Locality: Qd, Yeppoon
Types: Holotype - female (not male as stated)
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Turner
Type Sp Journal: Proc. R. Soc. Qd
Type Sp Page: 43
Type Sp Page Comment: (of Niphosticta Turner, 1936)
Type Sp Volume: 47
Type Sp Year: 1936
Type Sp Ref Id: 11416.0
Type Sp Genus: Niphosticta
Type Sp: apicipuncta
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=HURWORTHIA']
Memo: Nye (1975) stated:- This name is proposed in honour of Mr Peter Hurworth, in appreciation of his assistance during the early stages of the compilation of this catalogue. Poole (1989) included HURWORTHIA in the subfamily OPHIDERINAE, treated as CALPINAE by Kitching & Rawlins, in Kristensen (1999). Poole (1989) included NIPHOSTICTA Turner, 1936 (preoccupied) as a junior synonym of HURWORTHIA Nye, 1975. Poole (1989) included only 1 species in the genus HURWOR

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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