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Macrochila

Number: 16782.0
Author: Stephens
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34014#page/240/mode/2up
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Macrochila
Journal: Illust. Br. Ent.
Year: 1834
Homonym Count: 4.0
Page: 223
Ref Id: 11795.0
Series: (Haustellata)
Status: Junior homonym & objective synonym
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Tribe: Oecophorini
Volume: IV
Senior Syn: PLEUROTA
Senior Syn Author: Hübner
Senior Syn Page: 406
Senior Syn Year: 1825
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des Ref Id: 6444.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Westwood
Type Des Year: 1840
Type Des Journal: Introd. mod. Classif. Insects
Type Des Title: An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families / by J. O. Westwood
Type Des Volume: 2
Type Des Part: (Synopsis Genera Br. Insects)
Type Des Page: 110
Type Des Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45812#page/716/mode/2up
Type Sp Author: Clerck
Type Sp Journal: Icon. Insect. rariorum
Type Sp Page: pl.3 fig.15
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1759
Type Sp Ref Id: 9245.0
Type Sp Genus: Phalaena
Type Sp: bicostella
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MACROCHILA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oecophoridae']
Memo: Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:- Unavailable designation of type-Species: (1) P.bicostella was designated by Boisduval, 1836, Hist. nat. Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.) 1: 138. In the Introduction to the volume, pages 1-154, Boisduval reviewed earlier classifications of Lepidoptera and designated as many as three different type-species for each generic name. In his "Exposé de notre Méthode", pages 155-690, no type-species designation was made for any of the genera he himself used. Under the Code (Edn 3), Article 69(a)(iv), the type-species designation of an author is eligible for consideration if he states that it is the type".. and if it is clear that the author accepts it as the type-species". Boisdival's type designation, although clearly stated, do not fufill the last requirement and so are unavailable. Even though Boisduval's 1836 work was well known to lepidopterists, the type-designation contained in a have not been accepted by Hemming or by other authors. (2) Tinea rostrella Hübner, 1796, a nominal species not originally included in Macrochila, and not linked in synonymy with one of the originally included nominal species when cited by Duponchel, 1838, in Godart & Duponchel, 1838, in Godart & Duponchel, Hist. nat. Lépid. Papillons Fr. 11: 17. Macrochila was again proposed by Stephens, 1829 [July], Syst. Cat. Br. Insects (2): 199, and by Stephens, 1834, Illust. Br. Ent. (Haustellata) 4: 223. Macrochila is a junior objective synonym of Pleurota Hübner, [1825]. Macrochila Stephens, 1829 was also treated as a junior synonym of Pleurota Hübner, 1825 by Lvovsky, 1992 Entomologisceskoe Obozrenie 71 (3) : 638.

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