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Megaceraea

Number: 17298.0
Author: Rebel
Family: Blastobasidae
Genus: Megaceraea
Journal: Commentat. biol.
Year: 1940
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 40
Part: (1)
Ref Id: 10995.0
Status: Available name
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Volume: 8
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des Ref Id: 4264.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Nye & Fletcher
Type Des Year: 1991
Type Des In: in
Type Des In Author: Nye
Type Des Journal: Generic Names Moths World
Type Des Title: The Generic Names of Moths of the World / Trustees of the British Museum Natural History
Type Des Volume: 6
Type Des Page: 184
Type Sp Author: Rebel
Type Sp Journal: Commentat. biol.
Type Sp Page: 41, pl.2 figs 12, 13
Type Sp Part: (1)
Type Sp Volume: 8
Type Sp Year: 1940
Type Sp Ref Id: 10995.0
Type Sp Genus: Megaceraea
Type Sp: oecophorella
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastobasidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MEGACERAEA']
Memo: Nye & Fletcher (1991) included MEGACERAEA in the family BLASTOBASIDAE, treated by Hodges, in Kristensen (1999) as a subfamily of COLEOPHORIDAE. Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:- Megaceraea was proposed after 1930 and was not accompanied by the fixation of a type-species. Thus under the Code (Edn 3), Article 13(b), the name is technically unavailable. The Commission should therefore be asked to use its plenary power to make Megaceraea nomenclaturally available.

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Dataset buttmoth
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Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c