Acontia
| Number: | 242.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Westwood | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79178#page/238/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Acontia | |
| Journal: | Cabinet orient. Ent. | |
| Year: | 1847 | |
| Homonym Count: | 3.0 | |
| Page: | 76 | |
| Ref Id: | 6452.0 | |
| Status: | Junior homonym | |
| Subfamily: | Limenitidinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Limenitidini | |
| Senior Syn: | NEUROSIGMA | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Butler | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 615 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1869 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | by monotypy | |
| Type Sp Author: | Westwood | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79178#page/238/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Cabinet orient. Ent. | |
| Type Sp Page: | 76, pl.37, fig.4 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1848 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 8532.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Acontia | |
| Type Sp: | doubledaii | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=ACONTIA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- The name Acontia Westwood is invalid under the Law of Homonymy, being a junior homonym (a) of Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Schmett. Europa 4 : 91) and (b) of Acontia Hübner, [1823] (Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (17) : 257). The specific name doubledaii Westwood (the name of the type-species of the present genus) is invalid as a junior secondary homonym of an older-established name doubledaii Gray, [1846], as the result of the action of Westwood in [1850] (in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 291) in placing both the nominal species concerned (i.e. Acontia doubledaii Westwood, 1848, and Adolias doubledaii Gray (G.R.), [1846] (Descr. Fig. lep. Ins. Nepal : 13, pl. 13 (2 figs) in the genus Adolias Boisduval. Westwood realized that by this action he had invalidated his own doubledaii of 1848 and on the same page (: 291) he published the name Adolias siva as a replacement name for the name Acontia doubledaii. The Law of Secondary Specific Homonymy was modified as regards future cases by the Fifteenth International Congress of Zoology, London, 1958 but this left intact the old rule that a secondary homonym, once rejected and replaced, is to be treated as having been permanently invalidated thereby in cases in which (as here) the name was rejected before 1960 (Article 59 (C)). Accordingly, in the present case the specific name doubledaii Westwood, 1848, is objectively invalid and its replacement, siva Westwood, [1850], is an available name and, being the oldest such name objectively applicable to the present species, is its valid name. The nominal genus Acontia Westwood has been replaced by the objectively identical nominal genus Neurosigma Butler, 1868. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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