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Notodonta

Number: 19791.0
Author: Ochsenheimer
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107195#page/54/mode/2up
Family: Notodontidae
Genus: Notodonta
Journal: Schmett. Eur.
Year: 1810
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 45
Ref Id: 4328.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Notodontinae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Volume: 3
Type Country: [EUROPE]
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: Type(s)
Type Des Ref Id: 6923.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Curtis
Type Des Year: 1839
Type Des Journal: British entomology
Type Des Title: British entomology. being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland, &c.
Type Des Volume: 5
Type Des Page: 739
Type Sp Author: Linnaeus
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137240#page/300/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Systema Naturae
Type Sp Page: 827
Type Sp Series: (Edn 12)
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1767
Type Sp Ref Id: 3528.0
Type Sp Genus: Phalaena
Type Sp: dromedarius
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=NOTODONTA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notodontidae']
Memo: Nye (1975) stated:- Notodonta has been used as the original generic name for species which are now used in the Noctuidae. Watson, Fletcher & Nye (1980) stated:- Invalid type-species designations: Phalaena dromedarius, Linnaeus, 1767, was designated by Boisduval, 1836, Hist. nat. Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.) 1: 129. Phalaena zizac Linnaeus, 1758, was also designated by Boisduval, 1836, ibidem 1: 134, 142. In the Introduction to the volume, pages 1-154, Boisduval reviewed earlier classifications of Lepidoptera and designated as many as three different type-species for each generic name. In his `Exposé de notre méthode', pages 155-690, no type-species designation was made for any of the genera that he himself used. Under the Code, Article 69(a)(iii), the type-species designation of an author is eligible for consideration if he states that it is the type `... and if it is clear that he himself accepts as the type-species'. Boisduval's type-designations, although clearly stated, do not fulfil the last requirement and so are invalid. Even though Boisduval's 1836 work was well known to lepidopterists, the type-designations contained in it have not been accepted, either by Hemming or by other authors. NOTODONTA was included within the subfamily NOTODONTIDAE: NOTODONTINAE by Kitching & Rawlins, in Kristensen (1999).

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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