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Pandoriana

Number: 21221.0
Author: Warren
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pandoriana
Journal: Entomologist
Year: 1942
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 246
Ref Id: 6354.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Heliconiinae
Subtribe: Argynnina
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Argynnini
Volume: 75
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des: by original designation
Type Sp Author: Cramer
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95174#page/150/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Uitl. Kapellen
Type Sp Page: 39, pl.25, figs B-C
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1775
Type Sp Ref Id: 6911.0
Type Sp Genus: Papilio
Type Sp: maja
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=PANDORIANA', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio maja Cramer is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being a subspecies of the same taxon as that represented by the nominal species Papilio pandora [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775 (Ankündung [sic] eines syst. Werkes Schmett. Wiener Gegend : 176). As the species-group names maja and pandora were both published in 1775, there was no means of determining which should be treated as the elder of these two names until in 1958 the Commission in its Opinion 516 settled the relative precedence to be accorded to names published in 1775 in a number of works, including the Ankündung of Denis & Schiffermüller and the portions of Cramer's Uitl. Kapellen published in that year. Under the Ruling so given precedence was given to names published in the Ankündung over names published in the Uitl. Kapellen. Accordingly, on the basis of the subjective taxonomic view set out above, the name Pandora [Denis & Schiffermüller] (type-locality : Vienna) becomes the specific name for the collective-species as a whole, while the name maja Cramer becomes the subspecific name for the subspecies of Papilio pandora occurring in the neighbourhood of Constantinople. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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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