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Pandemos

Number: 21214.0
Author: Hübner
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/32/mode/2up
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Pandemos
Journal: Verz. bekannt. Schmett.
Year: 1819
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 25
Ref Id: 2846.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Riodininae
Subtribe: Nymphidiina
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Nymphidiini
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des Ref Id: 5223.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Scudder
Type Des Year: 1875
Type Des Journal: Proc. amer. acad. Arts Sci., Boston
Type Des Title: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston
Type Des Volume: 10
Type Des Part: (2)
Type Des Page: 236
Type Des Comment: (as a junior name of pasiphae)
Type Des Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22173#page/244/mode/2up
Type Sp Author: Hübner
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/32/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Verz. bekannt. Schmett.
Type Sp Page: 25
Type Sp Part: (2)
Type Sp Year: 1819
Type Sp Ref Id: 2846.0
Type Sp Genus: Pandemos
Type Sp: arcassa
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=PANDEMOS', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riodinidae', 'http://butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Pandemos_a.htm']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- [Pandemos arcassa, Hübner, [1819]] a nominal species bearing a name introduced as a replacement for the name Papilio arcas Cramer], [1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (15) : 127, pl. 179, figs E. F. Hübner did not give his reasons when, as frequently happened, he published a replacement name, and it is necessary therefore in each case to guess what those reasons were. In the present case it may certainly be conduced that his reason for rejecting the name Papilio arcas Cramer was that he was aware that it was a junior homonym of the name Papilio arcas Drury, [1773] (Ill. nat. Hist. 1 : index et 38). In spite of having been quite correctly replaced by Hübner (Pandemos arcassa), the invalid name areas remained in use for a long time, being used, for Example by Westwood as late as [1851] (in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 440). Writing of Pandemos on that occasion, Westwood observed that "the typical species" was arcas. It appears however that Westwood here used the adjective "typical" in a taxonomic sense and that he was not employing it in a nomenclatorial sense to denote its selection by himself to be the type-species of the genus. In 1875 however Scudder definitely selected Pandemos arcassa to be the type-species, and, as that is (as shown above) nothing more than a replacement for Papilio arcas Cramer, the action so taken by Scudder is exactly the same as that which would have resulted if Westwood's action in 1851 had constituted a valid type-selection. The taxon represented by Pandemos arcassa Hübner (and therefore also by the nominal species bearing the rejected name Papilio arcas Cramer) is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by another Cramerian nominal species, namely Papilio pasiphae Cramer, [1775] (Uitl. Kapellen 1 (7) : 127, pl. 80, fig. E), and it is therefore by the specific name pasiphae Cramer that the species here in question is currently known. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). See images at Butterflies of America.

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