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Pseudosphinx

Number: 24832.0
Author: Burmeister
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43395#page/306/mode/2up
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Pseudosphinx
Journal: Abh. naturforsch. Ges. Halle
Year: 1855
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 65
Part: (4) (Sber.)
Ref Id: 727.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Macroglossinae
Subtribe: Dilophonotina
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Tribe: Dilophonotini
Volume: 3
Type Country: AMERICA
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: Type(s)
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Linnaeus
Type Sp Journal: Mantissa Plant.
Type Sp Page: 538
Type Sp Part: (2)
Type Sp Year: 1771
Type Sp Ref Id: 10387.0
Type Sp Genus: Sphinx
Type Sp: tetrio
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=PSEUDOSPHINX', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingidae']
Memo: Fletcher & Nye (1982) stated:- Pseudosphinx was originally published as * Pseudophinx and was so listed by Neave, 1940, Nomencl. zool. 3: 997. In the generic diagnosis, Burmeister compared his new genus with Sphinx Linnaeus, 1758, and it is evident that he intended the name to be spelled as Pseudosphinx, the spelling that both he and subsequent authors have consistently adopted. Apart from Neave's correct record of the original spelling, * Pseudophinx has not been used since its original publication; in this catalogue, the name has be treated as an inadvertent error and an incorrect original spelling under Article 32(a)(ii) of the Code. The wrapper of part 4 of the journal which included Burmeister's paper was dated 1855; the separately paged reprint was dated 1856. Kitching & Cadiou (2000) list MACROSILA Lucas, 1857 as a junior synonym of PSEUDOSPHINX Burmeister, 1855.

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