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Meroleuca

Number: 17619.0
Author: Packard
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34038#page/262/mode/2up
Family: Saturniidae
Genus: Meroleuca
Journal: J. N.Y. ent. Soc.
Year: 1904
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: 250
Ref Id: 4402.0
Status: Objective replacement name
Subfamily: Hemileucinae
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Volume: 12
Type Country: VENEZUELA & [COLOMBIA]
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: Caracas & Santa Fé de Bogota, New Grenada
Types: Type(s)
Type Des: by original designation
Type Sp Author: Walker
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120193#page/584/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: List Spec. lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.
Type Sp Page: 1319
Type Sp Page Comment: (of Mesoleuca Packard, 1903)
Type Sp Part: (6)
Type Sp Year: 1855
Type Sp Ref Id: 6164.0
Type Sp Genus: Hemileuca
Type Sp: venosa
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturniidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MEROLEUCA']
Memo: Fletcher & Nye (1982) stated:- Meroleuca was established as an objective replacement name for Mesoleuca Packard, 1903. Dihirpa Draudt in Seitz, 1929 was downgraded to denote a subgenus of Meroleuca Packard, 1904 by Lemaire 1982, Revue Francaise D'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie) 4 (2) : 85.

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Dataset buttmoth
Dataset ID f8bc9b9c-009a-4689-bd01-ed621095c457
Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c