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Selenoscopus

Number: 26679.0
Author: Heinemann
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Selenoscopus
Journal: Schmett. Dtl. Schweiz
Year: 1859
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 445
Ref Id: 2523.0
Status: Junior objective synonym
Subfamily: Psaphidinae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Volume: 1
Senior Syn: BRACHIONYCHA
Senior Syn Author: Hübner
Senior Syn Page: 144
Senior Syn Year: 1819
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: Type(s)
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Esper
Type Sp Journal: Die Schmett. in Abbildungen
Type Sp Page: 248, pl.48 [not 68], fig.6
Type Sp Volume: 3
Type Sp Year: 1785
Type Sp Ref Id: 9512.0
Type Sp Genus: Bombyx
Type Sp: nubeculosa
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=SELENOSCOPUS']
Memo: Nye (1975) stated:- Selenoscopus is a junior objective synonym of Brachionycha Hübner, [1819]. See: BRACHIONYCHA Hübner, [1819] 1816. Poole (1989) included ASTEROSCOPUS Boisduval, 1829; PETASIA Stephens, 1829; BRACHYONYCHA Agassiz, 1847; and SELENOSCOPUS Heinemann, 1859 as junior synonyms of BRACHIONYCHA Hübner, 1819.
Type Comments: No locality given.

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Dataset buttmoth
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Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c