Melibaea
| Number: | 17494.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Saunders | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51011#page/188/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Riodinidae | |
| Genus: | Melibaea | |
| Journal: | Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. | |
| Year: | 1859 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 96 | |
| Ref Id: | 5112.0 | |
| Series: | (n.s.) | |
| Status: | Junior homonym | |
| Subfamily: | Riodininae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Riodinini | |
| Volume: | 5 | |
| Senior Syn: | ANCYLURIS | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Hübner | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 23 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1819 | |
| Type Country: | ? COUNTRY | |
| Type Depository: | (? Depository) | |
| Type Locality: | ? Locality | |
| Types: | ? Type status | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 2553.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Hemming | |
| Type Des Year: | 1964 | |
| Type Des Journal: | Annot. lep. | |
| Type Des Title: | Annotationes lepidopterologicae / Hepburn and Sons, London | |
| Type Des Part: | (4) | |
| Type Des Page: | 129 | |
| Type Des Comment: | (as defined by the specimen figured as figure 1 on plate 21, selected by Hemming (1964, Annot. lep. (3) : 101) to represent the le | |
| Type Sp Author: | Saunders | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. | |
| Type Sp Page: | 216, 225, pl.21, figs 1-1a, 2-2a | |
| Type Sp Part: | (9) | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1850 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 11093.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Erycina | |
| Type Sp: | julia | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riodinidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MELIBAEA'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- Kirby in 1871 (Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 303) drew attention to the fact that, while the figures on Saunders's plate 21 represented specimens of that author's new species Erycina julia, the text contained a description of a different species, Papilio aulestes Cramer, [1779]. This appears to have been due, in part, to the fact that previously Doubleday had applied to the Cramerian species the name Erycina julia in manuscript and had even published that name in this sense as a nomen nudum in 1847 (List Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 2 : 3). Stichel in 1930 (in Strand's Lep. Cat. 40 : 323, 328) reached the same conclusion as Kirby, except that he considered that at least part of Saunders's text referred to the true Erycina julia, while the remainder was concerned with Papilio aulestes. The interpretation of Erycina julia was placed on a firm basis by the choice of the lectotype referred to above. The name Melibaea Saunders is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Melibaea Forbes, 1838 (Malac. monensis : 4, 59) and also of Melibaea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1848 (Ann. Soc. en. Fr. (2) 5 (4) : 613). The taxon represented by the nominal species Erycina Julia Saunders is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as a subspecies of the taxon represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio meliboeus Fabricius, 1777 (Gen. Ins. : 271). The taxon represented by this Fabrician nominal species is, through a lectotype selection made by Hemming in 1964 (Annot. lep. (4) : 129), objectively identical with that represented by the nominal species Ancyluris pyrete Hübner, [1819], the type-species of the genus Ancyluris Hübner, [1819]. Accordingly, on the taxonomic view set out above, the name Melibaea Saunders, [1859], does not require replacement, it being a junior subjective synonym of Ancyluris Hübner, [1819]. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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