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Racoptera

Number: 25384.0
Author: Scott
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Racoptera
Journal: Zoologist
Year: 1858
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 5962
Ref Id: 5209.0
Status: Junior objective synonym
Subfamily: Hadeninae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Volume: 16
Senior Syn: PHLOGOPHORA
Senior Syn Author: Treitschke
Senior Syn Page: 369
Senior Syn Year: 1825
Type Country: EUROPE
Type Depository: (LS, London)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: Type
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Linnaeus
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/534/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Systema Naturae
Type Sp Page: 513
Type Sp Series: (Edn 10)
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1758
Type Sp Ref Id: 3527.0
Type Sp Genus: Phalaena
Type Sp: meticulosa
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=RACOPTERA']
Memo: Nye (1975) stated:- Racoptera is a junior objective synonym of Phlogophora Treitschke, 1825. See: PHLOGOPHORA Treitschke, 1825. Poole (1989) included SOLENOPTERA Duponchel, 1845; BROTOLOMIA Lederer, 1857; HABRYNTIS Lederer, 1857; RACOPTERA Scott, 1858; CHUTAPHA Moore, 1882; and MESOLOMIA Smith, 1893 as junior synonyms of PHLOGOPHORA Treitschke, 1825. HABRYNTIS Lederer 1857 was treated as a valid genus being revalidated by Beck 1996, Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 36 : 62.

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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