Megistanis
| Number: | 17377.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Doubleday | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120178#page/124/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Megistanis | |
| Journal: | List Spec. lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. | |
| Year: | 1845 | |
| Homonym Count: | 2.0 | |
| Page: | 109 | |
| Part: | (1) | |
| Ref Id: | 1472.0 | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Nymphalinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Coeini | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | by monotypy | |
| Type Sp Author: | Cramer | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95174#page/138/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Uitl. Kapellen | |
| Type Sp Page: | 33, pl.22, figs A-B | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1775 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 6911.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | cadmus | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MEGISTANIS'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio cadmus Cramer is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as the same as that represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio acheronta Fabricius, 1775 (Syst. Ent. : 501). There being no definite information as to the exact dates in 1775 on which the Papilio cadmus Cramer and Papilio acheronta Fabricius were published in 1775, the relative precedence to be accorded to these names was a matter of doubt until in 1958 the Commission gave a Ruling under its Plenary Powers in its Opinion 516 (Opin. int. Comm. Zool. Nom. 19 : 1-44) as to the relative precedence to be accorded to names in various works published in 1775. Under that Ruling the Commission gave directions, inter alia, that the Syst. Ent. of Fabricius of 1775 was to be treated as having precedence before those portions of Cramer's Uitl. Kapellen published in the same year. Thus, the specific name acheronta Fabricius, 1775, takes precedence above the specific name cadmus Cramer, [1775], and on the basis of the subjective identification noted above, becomes the oldest available name subjectively applicable to the present species. When establishing this genus, Doubleday, after citing cadmus Cramer, added as a second species what he called "Megistanis beotus Boisd.?". Scudder, overlooking the mark of interrogation, selected this latter nominal species in 1875 (Proc. amer. acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 213) to be the type-species. This action was invalid because when in 1844 Doubleday established this genus, there did not exist any duly published nominal species bearing this name. The species which in 1844 Doubleday had in mind was no doubt that which he himself named Megistanis baeotus, (emendation of beotus) in [1849] (Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pl. 48, fig. 2). Following Scudder's erroneous type-selection, this species was long known by the name Megistanis, but that practice was seen to be quite unacceptable as soon as it was realized that the true type-species of that genus was Papilio cadmus Cramer, these species not being considered to be congeneric by the author during the last hundred years. The correction of the type-species of Megistanis Doubleday left the species Megistanis baeotus Doubleday without an available generic name. To make good this deficiency I introduced in 1939 the name Baeotus which thus takes the place of the incorrect usage of Megistanis (i.e. Megistanis auct. nec Doubleday). Cowan (1970: 51) stated:- "MEGISTANIS line 2 : "selection . . . 134) : " to read - monotypy : Doubleday, as Hemming shows in the first five lines of the last paragraph, included only this one valid species. The remainder of the paragraph may be deleted; Doubleday's plate of 1849 spelt the name of the second species beotus, as he did in 1844", [this replaces - by selection by Hemming (1939, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 8 : 134), (in Hemming 1967, p.281)]. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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