Parura
| Number: | 21975.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| In Author: | Allen | |
| Author: | Kirby | |
| Family: | Pieridae | |
| Genus: | Parura | |
| Journal: | Naturalists Libr. | |
| Year: | 1896 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 229 | |
| Ref Id: | 3128.0 | |
| Series: | (Lepid. 1, Butts) | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Coliadinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Volume: | 2 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | (through Article 67.8 (replacement names)) | |
| Type Sp Author: | Butler | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90412#page/536/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. | |
| Type Sp Page: | 458, pl.26, fig.6 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1865 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 9163.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Callidryas | |
| Type Sp: | bracteolata | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=PARURA', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieridae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- Kirby expressly introduced the name Parura as a replacement for the name Metura Butler, 1873, which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. As a replacement genus, Parura takes automatically as its type-species the species which is the type-species of the genus (Metura) which it replaced, namely Callidryas bracteolata Butler, 1865. Kirby was therefore in error when, having established Parura as a replacement genus, he sought to designate a different nominal species (Papilio cipris Fabricius, 1793, Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 212) as type-species. The taxon represented by Callidryas bracteolata Butler, the type-species of this genus, is currently identified subjectively with that represented by the nominal species Papilio cipris Fabricius, 1793, and it was no doubt on account of this subjective identification of these two nominal species that Kirby fell into the error of seeking to designate the Fabrician species as the type-species of the replacement genus Parura. The subjective identification of the taxa represented respectively by the nominal species Callidryas bracteolata Butler and Papilio cipris Fabricius is still accepted by systematists, and the specific name cipris Fabricius has been commonly applied to this species. That name however is not available for this purpose, as it is invalid under the Law of Homonymy, being a junior homonym of the older-established nominal species Papilio cipris Cramer, [1777] (Uitl. Kapellen 2 (9) : 5, pl. 99, figs E, F). The oldest nomenclatorially available name subjectively applicable to the taxon represented by the nominal species Callidryas bracteolata Butler is Colias neocypris Hübner, [1823] (Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pl. [136]); the name neocypris Hübner is therefore the valid specific name for the type-species of the genus Parura Kirby on the basis of the currently accepted subjective identifications explained above. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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