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Orophia

Number: 20597.0
Author: Meyrick
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30242#page/458/mode/2up
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Orophia
Journal: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.
Page Comment: Nomenclaturally available but without included nominal species until Meyrick, 1884, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 9: 738.
Year: 1883
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: 421 [key]
Ref Id: 3766.0
Status: Junior homonym
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Tribe: Oecophorini
Volume: 7
Senior Syn: CNECOPHORA
Senior Syn Author: Common
Senior Syn Page: 67
Senior Syn Year: 1996
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des: by subsequent monotypy
Type Sp Author: Meyrick
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30487#page/768/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.
Type Sp Page: 738
Type Sp Series: (1)
Type Sp Volume: 9
Type Sp Year: 1884
Type Sp Ref Id: 3771.0
Type Sp Genus: Orophia
Type Sp: cinetica
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=OROPHIA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oecophoridae']
Memo: Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:- A junior homonym of Orophia Hübner, [1825] 1816, Verz. bekannter Schmett.: 405, - Lepid., Oecophoridae. There is no objective replacement name but Meyrick, 1922, in Wytsman, Genera Insect. 180: 126, treated O. cinetica as congeneric with Oecophora arabella Newman, 1856, the type-species of Philobota Meyrick, 1883, and used the latter as a subjective replacement name. Cnecophora Common, 1996 is the objective replacement name for the preoccuppied name the preoccupied name Orophia Meyrick 1883 nec Hübner 1825, by Common, 1996, Monographs of Australian Lepidoptera 4 : 67.

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Dataset buttmoth
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Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
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