Apatura
| Number: | 2111.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| In Author: | Illiger | |
| Author: | Fabricius | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Apatura | |
| Journal: | Mag. Insektenk. | |
| Year: | 1807 | |
| Homonym Count: | 3.0 | |
| Page: | 280 | |
| Ref Id: | 1782.0 | |
| Series: | (Illiger) | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Apaturinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Volume: | 6 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 6920.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Curtis | |
| Type Des Year: | 1831 | |
| 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: | 338 | |
| Type Sp Author: | Linnaeus | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/498/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema Naturae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 476 | |
| Type Sp Series: | (Edn 10) | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1758 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 3527.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | iris | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=APATURA'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- Except for a short time when an attempt was made by some lepidopterists to secure acceptance for the generic names introduced by Hübner in the pamphlet entitled the "Tentamen" distributed in 1806, the name Apatura Fabricius has been in continuous use ever since it was first published over 150 years ago. In fact, however, this name as used by Fabricius was a junior objective synonym of Potamis Hübner, [1806], and a junior homonym of Apatura [Illiger], 1807. The first of these defects was made good when the Commission by the Ruling given in its Opinion 97 rejected the "Tentamen", in which the name Potamis Hübner, [1806], was published, thereby depriving that name of the status of availability. The second difficulty was overcome by the action of the Commission in suppressing the name Apatura [Illiger], 1807, for the purposes both of the Law of Priority and of the Law of Homonymy. Details of the action described above are given in the notes on Potamis Hübner and Apatura [Illiger] respectively. At the time when the second of the above decisions was taken the Commission by its Ruling given in Opinion 232 (1954, Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 4 : 249-274) placed the name Apatura Fabricius, 1807, on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 657. Hemming (1967) stated:- In order to put an end to doubts as to the interpretation of the nominal species Papilio iris Linnaeus, 1758, the Commission, acting under its Plenary Powers, designated a lectotype for that species by the Ruling given in its Opinion 264 (1954, Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 5 : 343-354). The lectotype so selected was the male specimen illustrated as fig. 1 on plate 29 of R. South's work The Butterflies of the British Isles, published in 1906 ; at the same time the Commission designated "England" (="Anglia" of Linnaeus, 1758) as the restricted locality for the nominate subspecies of this species. A note of these decisions was added to the entry (as Name 48) of the specific name iris Linnaeus on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology. APATURA was included within the subfamily NYMPHALIDAE: APATURINAE by Ackery et al., in Kristensen (1999). The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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