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Porina

Number: 23708.0
Author: Walker
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120028#page/72/mode/2up
Family: Hepialidae
Genus: Porina
Journal: List Spec. lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.
Year: 1856
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 1549 [key], 1572
Part: (7)
Ref Id: 6168.0
Status: Invalid name
Superfamily: Hepialoidea
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Walker
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120028#page/73/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: List Spec. lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.
Type Sp Page: 1573
Type Sp Part: (7)
Type Sp Year: 1856
Type Sp Ref Id: 11530.0
Type Sp Genus: Porina
Type Sp: novaezealandiae
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=PORINA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepialidae']
Memo: Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:- A junior homonym of Porina d'Orbigny, 1852, Annls Sci. nat. (Zool.) (3) 17: 307, - Bryozoa. There is no objective replacement name but Elhamma signata Walker, 1856, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 7: 1563, a subjective synonym of P. novaezealandiae Walker, 1856, was placed by Viette, 1950, Zool. Meded. Leiden. 31: 73 in Philpottia Viette, 1950. Philpottia Viette is a junior homonym having Wiseana Viette, 1961, as an objective replacement name which is thus available for use as a subjective replacement name which is thus available for use as a subjective replacement name for Porina Walker. Porina Walker, 1856, has been placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology: Name Number 66. See also: * Gorina Quail, 1899; * Goryna Quail, 1899.

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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