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Hemming (1967) stated:-
An Incorrect Subsequent Spelling of Nymphidium Fabricius, 1807.
Boisduval & Leconte attributed this name to Fabricius, but they gave no indication to show whether this was an intentional emendation of Nymphidium Fabricius or whether the change in spelling was due to some other cause. As no evidence was provided to show that the change was "demonstratively intentional", the spelling Nymphidia does not rank as an emendation of Nymphidium Fabricius and has accordingly to be treated as an Erroneous Spelling of that name. It has been proposed by dos Passos (1963, Bull. zool. Nom. 20 : 319) that this name should be placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology, (This proposal was accepted by the Commission, whose decision is published in Opinion 755 (1966, Bull. zool. Nom. 22 : 282) N. D. Riley).
As explained in the note on the name Lephelisca Barnes & Lindsey, the name Nymphidia was treated by some authors (including myself) as the name of a separately established genus for some years prior to the definition in the present revised Code of the terms "emendation" and "incorrect subsequent spelling". By the authors who took this view and who treated - correctly at that time - the nominal species Papilio cereus Linnaeus, 1767, as the type-species of the genus Calephelis Grote & Robinson, 1869, the name Nymphidia was treated as a senior subjective synonym of the name Lephelisca.
Cowan (1970: 16) stated:-
Papers are now in press (J. Soc. Biblphy. nat. Hist.) on the two well-known European works, the Icones hist. Lep. by Boisduval and the Collection des Chenilles by Boisduval, Rambur, D. M., and Graslin. Although the collations were approximately known, the exact details have been worked out. All citations by Hemming are correctly dated.
However, the other serial work, Boisduval & Le Conte, 1829-37, Hist. gen. Iconogr. Lép. Amér. sept., was ill-documented. A study has been made of all the contemporary periodicals and records to establish satisfactory data, and the results appear in J. Soc. Biblphy. nat. Hist. 5 (2) : 125-134.
Corrigenda; "Leconte" should read Le Conte in all cases.
Where a date is given, this also applies. Names in brackets are ones where the citation occurs in the discussion; only four generic names themselves are affected.
AGANISTHOS [1835], (CELTIPHAGA) [1837], AGRAULIS [1835], (EPIDEMIA) [l835], (ASTEROCAMPA) [1835], (EUPSYCHE) [1835], (ATRYTONE) [1837], (HEDONE) [1837], CALLIDRYAS - , (MEGATHYMUS) [1835], (MITOURA) [1835], (NYMPHIDIA) [1835], (RHABDOIDES) -, RHODOCERA -, XANTHIDA [1830]".
[Therefore the genus year was changed from [1833] (in Hemming, 1967, p.317) to [1835]].
Nymphidia Boisduval & Le Conte, 1833 was placed on the List of Invalid and Rejected Names in Zoology, (Opinion 755), The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, ????? : 282.
The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).
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