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Simyra

Number: 26966.0
Author: Ochsenheimer
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107193#page/84/mode/2up
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Simyra
Journal: Schmett. Eur.
Year: 1816
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 81
Ref Id: 4329.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Acronictinae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Volume: 4
Type Country: [AUSTRIA]
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: Vienna district
Types: Type(s)
Type Des Ref Id: 6446.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Westwood
Type Des Year: 1840
Type Des Journal: Synopsis Genera Br. Insects
Type Des Title: Synopsis Genera British Insects
Type Des Page: 97
Type Sp Author: Schiffermüller
Type Sp Journal: Ankündung syst. Werkes. Schmett. Wienergegend
Type Sp Page: 85
Type Sp Year: 1775
Type Sp Ref Id: 11114.0
Type Sp Genus: Noctua
Type Sp: nervosa
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=SIMYRA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae']
Memo: Nye (1975) stated:- Invalid type-species designation by Boisduval, 1836, Hist. nat. Insectes (Lépid.) 1: 135, who also cited nervosa. Boisduval in his lengthy 154 page Introduction, reviewed earlier classifications and designated up to three different type-species for each generic name. In his 'Exposé de notre méthodé from pages 155-690, no type-species designations were made for the genera he himself used. Under the Code, Article 6g (a) (iii), the type-designation of an author is eligible for consideration if he states that it is the type'. . .and if it is clear that he himself accepts it as the type-species.' Boisduval's type-designations although clearly stated, do not fulfil the last requirement and so are invalid. Even though Boisduval's 1836 work was well known to lepidopterists, the type-designations contained in it have not in the past been accepted by Hemming for Rhopalocera, or by other authors. Poole (1989) included CNEPHATA Billberg, 1820; ASEMA Sodoffsky, 1837; ARSILONCHE Lederer, 1857; ABLEPHARON Grote, 1873; and OMMATOSTOLIDEA Benjamin, 1933 as junior synonyms of SIMYRA Ochsenheimer, 1816. Poole (1989) included 15 species in the genus SIMYRA.
Type Comments: (Collection destroyed, Horn & Kahle, 1936, Ent. Beih. Berl.-Dahlem 3: 243)

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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