Lemonias
| Number: | 15690.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Illiger | |
| Family: | Riodinidae | |
| Genus: | Lemonias | |
| Journal: | Allg.-Lit. Ztg Halle [Jena] | |
| Year: | 1807 | |
| Homonym Count: | 4.0 | |
| Page: | 1181 | |
| Part: | (2) | |
| Ref Id: | 2902.0 | |
| Status: | Suppressed name | |
| Subfamily: | Riodininae | |
| Subtribe: | Lemoniadina | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Nymphidiini | |
| Volume: | 1807 | |
| Senior Syn: | LEMONIAS | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Hübner | |
| Senior Syn Page: | pl.[35] | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1807 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | by monotypy | |
| Type Sp Author: | Hübner | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44052#page/82/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Samml. exot. Schmett. | |
| Type Sp Page: | pl.[35] | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1807 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 2831.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Lemonias | |
| Type Sp: | zygia | |
| 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=LEMONIAS', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riodinidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- Lemonias, as published in the serial cited above, is one of eleven generic names which are senior homonyms of well-known names published by Fabricius in a different sense a little later in the year 1807. Full particulars of the method adopted in the publication of these names and of the situation created by their discovery in 1933 have been given in the note on the name Apatura [Illiger], the first of these names when arranged in alphabetical order. The substitution of these Illiger names for those currently in use for the genera concerned and the rejection of their Fabrician counterparts as junior homonyms would have led to the most confusing name-changing and it was accordingly decided to submit an application to the Commission under the Plenary Powers. An application in this sense was submitted to the Commission by myself in 1943. Administrative and financial difficulties delayed the consideration of this case by the Commission but in 1954 (Ops. Decls. int. Comm. zool. Nomencl. 4 : 249-274) it promulgated its decision in Opinion 232, in which it suppressed under the Plenary Powers all the Illigerian names so submitted to it. The name Lemonias [Illiger] was included in the foregoing application at the time of its original submission, but through some inadvertence it was omitted from the list of names included in the Ruling given in the above Opinion. It is not considered that this name should be treated as having been excluded from the scope of Opinion 232 by reason of this omission, and it is accordingly here treated as having been suppressed by the Commission at the same time as the exactly similar Illigerian names enumerated in that Opinion. The Riodinid species which is the type-species of the present Illigerian genus happens to be the type-species of the genus Lemonias as established by Hübner later in 1807 in volume 1 of the Samml. exot. Schmett. For the reasons explained above, the name Lemonias [Illiger], 1807, is here treated as invalid as a rejected homonym of the name Lemonias Hübner, [1807]. The genus so named falls, as an objective synonym, in the synonymy of Lemonias Hübner, [1807]. Cowan (1970: 50) stated:- LEMONIAS [Illiger], 19 Dec. 1807, Allgem. Lit. Ztg. [Jena] Halle 1807 (2) : 1179, 1181 (facsimile given by Hemming, 1937, Hübner 2 : 43-45). This name was introduced by Illiger in a favourable review of the first 34 plates of Hübner's Samml. exot. Schmett. Illiger clearly did not know of, or did not recognise as valid, the 1806 Tentamen, and he very understandably did not consider that "Papilio lemonias maculata zygia" of Hübner's plate was a valid introduction of Lemonias as a generic name. However, he thought that the species shown did warrant the erection of a new name, and that Lemonias was suitable. He accordingly proposed it as new. We have since accepted Hübner's names, and Illiger's Lemonias is invalid as a junior homonym and objective synonym of Hübner's. All mention of Fabricius is here irrelevant. The above should follow the entry for Lemonias Hübner, [1807] in Hemming, 1967 : 250, of which the last four words may be deleted, as well as the earlier Lemonias [Illiger] entry in toto. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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