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Pompeoptera

Number: 23678.0
Author: Rippon
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123915#page/54/mode/2up
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Pompeoptera
Journal: Icon. Ornithopt.
Year: 1889
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 4
Ref Id: 4905.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Subtribe: Troidina
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Troidini
Volume: 1
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, fig.A
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1775
Type Sp Ref Id: 6911.0
Type Sp Genus: Papilio
Type Sp: pompeus
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=POMPEOPTERA', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilionidae']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio pompeus Cramer is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being a female - form of the taxon represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio helena Linnaeus, 1758 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 461). In addition to designating Papilio pompeus Cramer as the type-species at the time of the establishment in 1890 of the nominal genus Pompeoptera, Rippon six years later ([1896], loc. cit. 2 : 7) designated as the type-species another nominal species, namely Papilio helena Linnaeus, 1758. In view of the subjective synonymy indicated above, it may be concluded that, when in 1896 Rippon made the foregoing revised type-selection, it was not his intention to change the interpretation of to genus Pompeoptera, his idea being merely to cite under its correct (because the oldest subjectively available) specific name (Helena Linnaeus) the species which in 1890 he had designated as type-species under the later specific name pompeus Cramer. It may be useful to note that the dates of issue of the various parts of Rippon's book are very difficult to determine. The dates here adopted are those from Moore, [1902] (Lep. ind. 5 (54) : 139). The accuracy of the date here assigned to the name Pompeoptera is confirmed by the fact that the name Trogonoptera first published on the same page was recorded in the Zoological Record 27 (year 1890) (Ins.) : 204 as having been published in that year. The evidence provided by the Zool. Rec., taken in isolation, cannot however be regarded as absolutely convincing for the volume of the Zool. Rec. concerned was not published until 1892; there is therefore a possibility that the fact of the publication of these two names did not come to the knowledge of the editor until some time between the close of 1890 and the early part of 1892. 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