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Polystichtis

Number: 23655.0
Author: Hübner
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/26/mode/2up
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Polystichtis
Journal: Verz. bekannt. Schmett.
Year: 1819
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 18
Ref Id: 2846.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Riodininae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Tribe unassigned
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des Ref Id: 11138.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Scudder
Type Des Year: 1872
Type Des Journal: Rep. Peabody Acad. Sci.
Type Des Title: Report of the Peabody Academy of Science / Salem, Mass.
Type Des Volume: 4
Type Des Page: 49
Type Sp Author: Linnaeus
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137240#page/838/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Systema Naturae
Type Sp Page: Errata
Type Sp Series: (Edn 12)
Type Sp Year: 1767
Type Sp Ref Id: 3528.0
Type Sp Genus: Papilio
Type Sp: cereus
Memo Links: ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riodinidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=POLYSTICHTIS']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- Errata [a nominal species established as a replacement for Papilio caeneus Linnaeus, 1767, Syst. Nat. (ed. 12) 1 (2) : 796]. In 1875 (Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 254) Scudder quite without justification rejected the type-selection made by himself in 1872 and sought to select in its place the nominal species Polystichtis zeangira Hübner, [1819 (Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (2) : 18) (a nominal species introduced quite unnecessarily as a replacement for the nominal species Papilio zeanger Stoll, [1790], Aanhangs. Werk Uitl. Kapellen Pieter Cramer : 165, pl. 37, fig. 2). Scudder's mistake in 1875 led some authors (e.g. Stichel, 1930, in Strand's Lep. Cat. 41 : 628, 629) to misuse the name Polystichtis Hübner, employing it in place of Calospila Geyer, [1832], the latter name being sunk as a junior subjective synonym of Polystichtis Correctly interpreted in accordance with Scudder's type-selection of 1872, the name Polystichtis is a junior subjective synonym of Emesis Fabricius, 1807. 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