Sicyonia
| Number: | 26896.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Hübner | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/20/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Sicyonia | |
| Journal: | Verz. bekannt. Schmett. | |
| Year: | 1816 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 13 | |
| Ref Id: | 2840.0 | |
| Status: | Suppressed name | |
| Subfamily: | Heliconiinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Heliconiini | |
| Senior Syn: | HELICONIUS | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Kluk | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 82 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1780 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 5223.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Scudder | |
| Type Des Year: | 1875 | |
| Type Des Journal: | Proc. amer. acad. Arts Sci., Boston | |
| Type Des Title: | Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston | |
| Type Des Volume: | 10 | |
| Type Des Part: | (2) | |
| Type Des Page: | 268 | |
| Type Des Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22173#page/276/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Author: | Cramer | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95174#page/254/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Uitl. Kapellen | |
| Type Sp Page: | 85, pl.54, figs C-D | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1775 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 6911.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | rhea | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=SICYONIA', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- Hübner cited the name Papilio rhea Cramer in the synonymy of the nominal species Nereis thamar Hübner, [1806] (Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pl. [16]). Under Article 69 (a) (i) a nominal species, the name of which is cited in synonymy in the foregoing manner at the time of the establishment of a nominal genus ranks as an originally included nominal species. Thus, Scudder's selection of Papilio rhea as type-species was perfectly valid. The name Papilio rhea Cramer is invalid, because it is a junior homonym of the name Papilio rhea Poda, 1761 (Ins. Mus. graec. : 66). It is considered subjectively on taxonomic grounds that the oldest available name subjectively applicable to the taxon named Papilio rhea Cramer is Nereis thamar Hübner, [1806], with which, already noted, Papilio rhea Cramer was synonymized by Hübner. The taxon represented by Nereis thamar Hübner is currently treated subjectively as being a subspecies of the taxon represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio sara Fabricius, 1793 (Ent. syst 3 (1) : 167). The name Sicyonia Hübner is of no practical value to lepidopterists as according to current taxonomic ideas it is no more than a junior subjective synonym of the name Heliconius Kluk, 1802. On the other hand, there a later name consisting of the same word - Sicyonia Milne Edwards (H.), 1830 which applies to a well-known genus of Penaeid prawns. In order to validate this name in the Decapoda, the Commission in its Opinion 382 (1956, Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 12 : 43-58) used its Plenary Powers to suppress the generic name Sicyonia Hübner for the purposes, both of the Law of Priority and of the Law of Homonymy, at the same time placing that name on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 380. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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