Moera
| Number: | 18508.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Hübner | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/58/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Moera | |
| Journal: | Verz. bekannt. Schmett. | |
| Year: | 1819 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 51 | |
| Ref Id: | 2846.0 | |
| Status: | Junior objective synonym | |
| Subfamily: | Morphinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Amathusiini | |
| Senior Syn: | AMATHUSIA | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Fabricius | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 279 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1807 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 2550.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Hemming | |
| Type Des Year: | 1939 | |
| Type Des Journal: | Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. | |
| Type Des Title: | Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London | |
| Type Des Series: | (B) | |
| Type Des Volume: | 8 | |
| Type Des Part: | (7) | |
| Type Des Page: | 133 | |
| Type Sp Author: | Linnaeus | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41302#page/28/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp In Author: | Johansson | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Centuria Insect. Rariorum | |
| Type Sp Page: | 19 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1763 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 7747.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | phidippus | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MOERA', '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:- Hübner cited the type-species of this genus under the variant spelling phidippe (adopted by him to bring the name into grammatical agreement with the generic name) and cited with it only the reference "Phidippus Cram. 69. A.B". Reference to the Uitl. Kapellen however shows that that author did not publish the specific name phidippus as a new name of his own but was merely employing it as already published by Linnaeus. The type-species of this genus is therefore correctly citable as Papilio phidippus Linnaeus, 1763. This name has frequently been treated as being invalid under the Law of Homonymy on the ground that it had previously been used by Leach for a genus of Crustacea, Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 220), being the first to express this view. Actually, the name published by Leach was not spelled as Moera but as Maera Leach, [1814] (in Brewster's Edinb. Ency. 7 (2) : 403). The relationship of generic names differing from one another by some small spelling variant remained obscure until the adoption by the Copenhagen Congress of 1953 of the provision now embodied in Article 57 (d) that a difference in spelling of a single letter is to be accepted as preventing a situation of homonymy arising as between any two generic names. The name Moera Hübner is therefore not a junior homonym of the name Maera [Leach], [1814]. The name Moera Hübner is however invalid under the Law of Priority, for it is a junior objective synonym of Amathusia Fabricius, 1807. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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| Dataset | buttmoth |
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