Mesoacidalia
| Number: | 17658.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Reuss | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Mesoacidalia | |
| Journal: | Dt. ent. Z. | |
| Year: | 1926 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 69 | |
| Part: | (1) | |
| Ref Id: | 4858.0 | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Heliconiinae | |
| Subtribe: | Argynnina | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Argynnini | |
| Volume: | 1926 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | by original designation | |
| Type Sp Author: | Linnaeus | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/502/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema Naturae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 481 | |
| Type Sp Series: | (Edn 10) | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1758 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 3527.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | aglaja | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MESOACIDALIA', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- The name Papilio aglaja was given by Linnaeus in 1758 to two different species, once (: 481) to the present Nymphalid (Argynnid) species and once (: 465) to a Pierid (Delias) species. In 1767 (loc. cit. (ed. 12) 1 (2) : 755) he realized the mistake which he had made in 1758, and, in order to correct it, introduced the substitute name Papilio pasilhoe [sic, see below] for the name Papilio aglaja, as previously applied by him to the Pierid species, while retaining the name Papilio aglaja for the present Nymphalid species. In spite of this, the specific name aglaja continued in use for well over one hundred and fifty years both for the Nymphalid and for the Pierid species. That this should have happened was no doubt partly due to the fact that (as already noted) the two species concerned belong to widely separated families but it is certainly due principally to the fact that these species occur in different zoo-geographical regions - the Nymphalid in the Palaearctic Region, the Pierid in the Indo-Oriental Region - with the result that it seldom, if ever, happened that a later author found it necessary to deal with both species in a single work. Indeed, it was not until 1935 (Entomologist 68 : 189 nova) that Verity drew attention to the condition of homonymy between these names, expressed the view that of these two names it was the present (Nymphalid) name that should be rejected as invalid (principle of page precedence) and added that under the Code the name aglaja Linnaeus ought to be replaced by the name charlotta Haworth (Papilio charlotta Haworth, 1802, Prodr. Lep. brit. : 3) ; Verity did not however actually make this change. There then appearing to be no alternative, the change was actually made by myself in 1942 (Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 11 : 158). The situation was however completely changed by the introduction into the current revised Code of 1961 of the First Reviser principle for dealing with cases of this kind (Article 24 (a)). In the present case Linnaeus himself was the First Reviser when (as already noted) he rejected and replaced the name Papilio aglaja as applied to the Pierid species and retained that name for the present Nymphalid species. Thus, under the Code the name Papilio aglaja Linnaeus, 1758 (: 481)is the correct name for the type-species of the present (Nymphalid) species. (Cowan (1968: 13) stated:- MESOACIDALIA, line 6; "pasilhoe" should read; pasithoe The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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