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Metasarca

Number: 17857.0
Author: Hampson
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Metasarca
Journal: Descr. new Genera Species Lepid. Phalaenae
Year: 1926
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: 1
Ref Id: 9816.0
Status: Junior homonym
Subfamily: Calpinae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Senior Syn: METASARCA
Senior Syn Author: Dyar
Senior Syn Page: 5
Senior Syn Year: 1925
Type Country: MEXICO
Type Depository: (BMNH, London)
Type Locality: Cuernavaca
Types: Holotype - male
Type Des: by original designation
Type Sp Author: Hampson
Type Sp Journal: Descr. new Genera Species Lepid. Phalaenae
Type Sp Page: 2
Type Sp Year: 1926
Type Sp Ref Id: 9816.0
Type Sp Genus: Metasarca
Type Sp: euphanera
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=METASARCA']
Memo: Nye (1975) stated:- A junior homonym of Metasarca Dyar, 1925, -Lepid., Noctuidae. This name was used and made available by Dyar prior to its proposal and generic description by Hampson. There is no objective replacement name. Dyar's type-species was described as M. euphancra, and Hampson's type-species was described as M. exphanera. They were undoubtedly intended to be the same as Dyar acknowledged Hampson for the name, but each was proposed and described in good faith as a new species, each having a holotype. Both names therefore nomenclaturally available, but both holotypes were collected from the same locality by W. Schaus and it is almost certain that when compared they will be found to be conspecific. See: METASARCA Dyar, 1925. Poole (1989) included METASARCA Hampson, 1926 (preoccupied) as a junior synonym of METASARCA Dyar, 1925.

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