Pontia
| Number: | 23694.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| In Author: | Illiger | |
| Author: | Fabricius | |
| Family: | Pieridae | |
| Genus: | Pontia | |
| Journal: | Mag. Insektenk. | |
| Year: | 1807 | |
| Homonym Count: | 2.0 | |
| Page: | 283 | |
| Ref Id: | 1782.0 | |
| Series: | (Illiger) | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Pierinae | |
| Subtribe: | Pierina | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Pierini | |
| Volume: | 6 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 1165.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Curtis | |
| Type Des Year: | 1824 | |
| Type Des Journal: | British entomology | |
| Type Des Title: | British entomology. being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland, &c. | |
| Type Des Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Des Page: | 48 | |
| Type Des Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38680#page/196/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Author: | Linnaeus | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/490/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema Naturae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 468 | |
| Type Sp Series: | (Edn 10) | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1758 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 3527.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | daplidice | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Pontia_a.htm', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieridae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=PONTIA'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- The examination in the mid-nineteen-thirties of the then newly discovered Hübner manuscripts brought to light the fact that the well-known name Pontia Fabricius, 1807, had a subjective synonym published by Hübner in the same year. This created a difficult situation, because there existed no means of determining which of the two names concerned had priority over the other, with the consequent risk that, either as the result of fresh information coming to light or otherwise, an attempt might be made by some authors to substitute the Hübnerian name for Pontia Fabricius. The name concerned was Mancipium Hübner, [1807] (Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pl. [141]) (type-species by monotypy : Mancipium hellica Hübner, [1807] ibidem. 1 : pl. [141]). The adoption of this name for the present genus would have been open to a double objection, for it would not only have led to the sinking in synonymy of the long-established name Pontia Fabricius, but in addition would have given to the name Mancipium a meaning quite different from that applied to it on the relatively small number of occasions on which in comparatively recent times, it had been used for Papilio brassicae Linnaeus, 1758, that is, in the sense in which it had been employed by Hübner in the pamphlet Tentamen (later rejected by the Commission in its Opinion 97), though even at that date this usage was incorrect owing to the fact that Papilio brassicae is the type-species of the older-established nominal genus Pieris Schrank, 1801. In order to prevent the disturbance in nomenclature described above, a request was made to the Commission to protect the name Pontia Fabricius from attack by the name Mancipium Hübner. This application was approved by the Commission in its Opinion 137 promulgated in 1942 (Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 2 : 21-280. In this Opinion the Commission used its Plenary Powers to direct that the name Pontia Fabricius was to be given precedence over the name Mancipium Hübner. This decision was amplified in 1954 by the Commission in its Direction 4 (loc. cit. 2 : 629-652), in which it was formally placed on record that the ruling given in Opinion 137 was to be interpreted as constituting the suppression of the name Mancipium Hübner, which was thereupon placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology. The name Pontia Fabricius had already (in Opinion 137) been placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 566. Finally, attention must be drawn to a strange misuse of the name Pontia by Boisduval ([1836], (Sonnini's Suite à Buffon), Hist. Hist Ins, Spec. gén. Lépid. 1 : 430-434), who employed it for Papilio nina Fabricius, 1793, and other species, thus treating this Fabrician name as the equivalent of Leptosia Hübner, 1818. This mistake of Boisduval's was copied by various later authors, of whom the most prominent was Reuter (1897, Acta Soc. Sci. fenn. 22 (No. 1) : 18, 234, 236, 250, 550, 555), who, overlooking Boisduval's rather obscure attribution of this name to Fabricius, cited it as "Pontia Boisd." and even went so far as to erect the nominal family-group taxon Pontiini based upon Boisduval's non-existent genus Pontia. Cowan (1970: 54) stated:- "Sonnini's to read - Roret's." The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). See images at Butterflies of America. |
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