Parhestina
| Number: | 21899.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Moore | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103327#page/46/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Parhestina | |
| Journal: | Lep. ind. | |
| Year: | 1896 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 34 | |
| Ref Id: | 4066.0 | |
| Status: | Junior objective synonym | |
| Subfamily: | Apaturinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Volume: | 3 | |
| Senior Syn: | DIAGORA | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Snellen | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 67 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1894 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | (through Article 67.8 (replacement names)) | |
| Type Sp Author: | Felder & Felder | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98237#page/40/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Wien. ent. Monatschr. | |
| Type Sp Page: | 27 | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 6 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1862 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 1818.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Apatura | |
| Type Sp: | japonica | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=PARHESTINA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- Moore introduced the name Parhestina as a replacement for the name Diagora Snellen, 1894, which he rejected in the erroneous belief that it was invalid as a junior homonym of the name Diagoras Stål, 1877 (Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 20, C.R. : lxvi), the name of a genus in the Order Orthoptera. At the time when Moore introduced this replacement name, there was considerable doubt as to the conditions in which any given pair of generic names should be treated as being homonyms of one another, but the difficulties arising from this cause were set at rest on the introduction of the present "One-Letter-Difference" rule (Articles 6 (a)). Normally, a replacement genus takes automatically as its type-species the species, whatever it may be, which is the type-species of the genus which it replaces. In the present case however the genus replaced (Diagora Snellen) was without a type-species at the time when Moore published the replacement name Parhestina. It would have been open to him therefore to select as the type-species of Parhestina either of the two nominal species cited by Snellen as belonging to the genus Diagora, and the designation of one of these as the type-species of Parhestina would have constituted also a valid selection of that species as the type-species of Diagora. Unfortunately, however, Moore did not follow this course, selecting instead Diadema persimilis Westwood, [1850] (in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 281 nota). That selection was invalid for Diadema persimilis was not included by Snellen in his genus Diagora and was therefore ineligible for selection as the type-species of the replacement genus Parhestina. The nominal genus Diagora and its replacement Parhestina remained without a type-species until in 1934 I selected Apatura japonica Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862 - one of Snellen's original species - to be the type-species of Diagora Snellen. This action constituted automatically the selection of that nominal species to be the type-species of the replacement genus Parhestina Moore. As the name Diagora Snellen is a nomenclatorially available name, its replacement name Parhestina is invalid as a junior objective synonym of Diagora Snellen. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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