Klotsius
| Number: | 15192.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Hemming | |
| Family: | Pieridae | |
| Genus: | Klotsius | |
| Journal: | Annot. lep. | |
| Year: | 1964 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 148 | |
| Part: | (4) | |
| Ref Id: | 2553.0 | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Coliadinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | by original designation | |
| Type Sp Author: | Hübner | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44052#page/306/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Samml. exot. Schmett. | |
| Type Sp Page: | pl.[147] | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1818 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 2842.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Mancipium | |
| Type Sp: | menippe | |
| 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=KLOTSIUS', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieridae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- The taxon represented by this nominal genus was characterized by Klots in 1933 (Ent. amer. (n.s.) 12 : 179) under the name Rhodocera Boisduval & Leconte, [1830], there treated as representing a subgenus of Anteos Hübner, [1819]. Klots gave as the type-species of Rhodocera so characterized the nominal species Mancipium menippe Hübner. Klots did not state the grounds on which he interpreted Rhodocera in this way, but - as transpired later in correspondence - he was there following Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 263) in treating the above nominal species as having been validly selected as the type-species of Rhodocera by Butler in 1870 (Cist. ent. 1 : 35). In fact however what Butler did on that occasion was to select as the type-species the nominal species Colias leachiana Godart, [1819] (Ency. méth. 9 (Ins.) (1) : 91). The apparent discrepancy between Butler's action and Scudder's statement that that author had selected Mancipium menippe Hübner as type-species is due to the fact that here, as elsewhere in his work on generic names, Scudder accepted on taxonomic matters the views expressed in 1871 (Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep.) by Kirby who in this instance had treated (: 483) the foregoing nominal species as representing the same taxonomic unit. This identification has been adopted by subsequent workers, and accordingly, if Butler's type-selection had been otherwise been valid, the interpretation of Rhodocera adopted by Klots, though incorrect nomenclatorially, would nevertheless have been in harmony with Butler's intentions. But for a quite different reason - and one not appreciated by Scudder - Butler's type-selection for Rhodocera was invalid. This arose from the fact that many years earlier an entirely different species had been validly selected as the type-species by a different author. This was Blanchard who in 1840 (Hist. nat. Ins. 3 : 341) had so selected Papilio rhamni Linnaeus, 1758. That species is the type-species of the genus Gonepteryx [Leach], [1815], of which therefore Rhodocera Boisduval & Leconte is a junior objective synonym. The correction of the mistake described above left without an available name the genus-group taxon which Klots characterized in 1933 under the misapplied name Rhodocera. As the result of correspondence between Professor Klots and myself, I agreed to make good this deficiency by establishing a genus-group taxon having Mancipium menippe Hübner as its type-species. It gave me great pleasure to select for this taxon the name Klotsius, in recognition of the important contributions made by Professor Klots to the taxonomy of the family Pieridae. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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