Morpho
| Number: | 18659.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Hübner | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/56/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Morpho | |
| Journal: | Verz. bekannt. Schmett. | |
| Year: | 1819 | |
| Homonym Count: | 2.0 | |
| Page: | 49 | |
| Ref Id: | 2846.0 | |
| Status: | Junior homonym | |
| Subfamily: | Charaxinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Preponini | |
| Senior Syn: | PREPONA | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Boisduval | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 3, pl.7 [= pl.3B], fig. 13 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1836 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 2551.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Hemming | |
| Type Des Year: | 1943 | |
| 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: | 12 | |
| Type Des Part: | (2) | |
| Type Des Page: | 28 | |
| Type Sp Author: | Hübner | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/56/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Verz. bekannt. Schmett. | |
| Type Sp Page: | 49 | |
| Type Sp Part: | (4) | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1819 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 2846.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Morpho | |
| Type Sp: | omphale | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MORPHO', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- This is one of a number of cases in which Hübner deliberately appropriated and treated as his own a name published by one of his predecessors - in this case, the name Morpho Fabricius, 1807 - using the name so appropriated in a sense quite different from that in which it had been employed by the author by whom it had first been used. Thus, Morpho Fabricius, as already noted, is the eponym of the family Morphidae, whereas Morpho Hübner belongs to the Charaxes-Group of the family Nymphalidae. For the reason explained above, the name Morpho Hübner is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. The nominal species Morpho omphale Hübner was based upon bibliographical references to two previously established nominal species. One of these was Potamis laertes Hübner, [1811] Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pl. [70]) and this, through a lectotype-selection made by myself in 1964 (Annot. lep. (3 : 99) (for Potamis laertes, has become objectively identical with Morpho omphale Hübner, the type-species of the present genus. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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