Hymenitis
| Number: | 14098.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Illiger | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Hymenitis | |
| Journal: | Allg.-Lit. Ztg Halle [Jena] | |
| Year: | 1807 | |
| Homonym Count: | 2.0 | |
| Page: | 1180 | |
| Part: | (2) | |
| Ref Id: | 2902.0 | |
| Status: | Suppressed name | |
| Subfamily: | Ithomiinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Mechanitini | |
| Volume: | 1807 | |
| Senior Syn: | MECHANITIS | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Fabricius | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 284 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1807 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 2544.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Hemming | |
| Type Des Year: | 1934 | |
| Type Des Journal: | Gen. Names hol. Butts | |
| Type Des Title: | The generic names of the holarctic butterflies | |
| Type Des Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Des Page: | 28 | |
| Type Sp Author: | Linnaeus | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/488/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema Naturae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 466 | |
| 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: | polymnia | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=HYMENITIS', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- This name and Mechanitis Fabricius, 1807, are objective synonyms of one another, and from the information obtainable from the Allgem. Lit. Ztg it is clear that these unwelcome Illigerian names possess by a narrow margin priority over the names (including Mechanitis) published by Fabricius in the Mag. f. Insektenk. of Illiger also published in 1807. On the discovery of this priority it was decided to put the whole matter before the Commission with a request that it should use its Plenary Powers to ensure that the well-known Fabrician names of 1807 should not be invalidated through the discovery of the long-overlooked Illigerian counterparts. Prominent among the names concerned was Mechanitis, for, if that name as published by Illiger had been permitted to invalidate the Fabrician version under the Law of Homonymy, the name would have had to be transferred from its well-known position in the Ithomiidae and transferred to some genus for which it had never been used since the time of Illiger. Full particulars regarding this application and of the action taken on it by the Commission have been given in the note on the name Apatura [Illiger] (the first in alphabetical order of the Illigerian names concerned) and it is therefore not necessary here fully to recapitulate the later history of this case. It is sufficient for the present purposes to state that, as part of the general settlement then agreed upon by the Commission the name Mechanitis Fabricius, 1807, was validated under the Plenary Powers and placed on the Official list of Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 661. Accordingly, the name Hymenitis [Illiger], 1807, here in question falls into the synonymy of Mechanitis Fabricius, 1807 as a junior objective synonym. Cowan (1970: 48) stated:- "junior to read - senior". Cowan (1970: 33) stated:- DECISIONS PENDING AT I.C.Z.N. (As at 31 December 1969) The status of the following, in addition to the twelve names listed in Annot. Rhop. 1968 (page 8, paragraph 7), are now under consideration by the International Commission; HYMENITIS Illiger, 1807, Case No.Z.N.(S.) - 1899. The first four depend on action to be taken regarding the earliest, Hymenitis Illiger which, as Hemming shows, is both valid and a senior objective synonym of Mechanitis Fabricius, a name on the Official List. The action taken will affect the junior homonym Hymenitis Hübner, and/or its replacement name Greta. Hymenitis [Illiger], 1807 was suppressed to support the Law of Priority and not the Law of Homonymy under the Plenary Powers of the Commission, (Opinion 985) The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 29 (3) : 117. Hymenitis was placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Names in Zoology. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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