Sita
| Number: | 27051.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Herrich-Schäffer | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Sita | |
| Journal: | Corresp.-Bl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg | |
| Year: | 1864 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 102 | |
| Part: | (7/8) | |
| Ref Id: | 2653.0 | |
| Status: | Junior homonym | |
| Subfamily: | Satyrinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Zetherini | |
| Volume: | 18 | |
| Senior Syn: | ETHOPE | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Moore | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 770 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1866 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 2553.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Hemming | |
| Type Des Year: | 1964 | |
| Type Des Journal: | Annot. lep. | |
| Type Des Title: | Annotationes lepidopterologicae / Hepburn and Sons, London | |
| Type Des Part: | (4) | |
| Type Des Page: | 120 | |
| Type Des Comment: | (under Article 69(a) (ii)) (of ETHOPE Moore, 1866, the objective replacement name) | |
| Type Sp Author: | Felder & Felder | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98656#page/412/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Wien. ent. Monatschr. | |
| Type Sp Page: | 403 | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 3 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1859 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 1815.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Neorina | |
| Type Sp: | sita | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=SITA'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- Herrich-Schaeffer established this genus in a key, placing it between Antirrhaea Hübner (genus 19) and Hipio Hübner (genus 21). No species were cited for any of the genera in the key, this being left for the later treatment of these genera in the main text. The portion of the text relating to the genera cited in this key was published in 1865 (loc. cit. 19 : 71). Here Herrich-Schaeffer omitted all reference to his genus Sita, inserting at the point where it should have appeared the genus Neorina Doubleday [recte Westwood], in which he placed Neorina hilda Westwood (the type-species of Neorina) and Neorina sita. There can be no doubt in the circumstances that, when he established the nominal genus Sita, it was his intention to included in it the species Neorina sita, which would thus have become the type-species by absolute tautonymy. However, in view of the fact that Herrich-Schaeffer made no mention of the name Sita when later he dealt with the genus Neorina, it cannot be claimed that Neorina sita was one of the originally included species of Sita. It has to be admitted in fact that the generic name Sita Herrich-Schaeffer was published without any nominal species being cited as belonging to the genus. In order to provide this generic name with a definite place in the literature I designated Neorina sita as type-species under the provisions of Article 67 (a) (ii). The name Sita Herrich-Schaeffer is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Sita Semper, 1862 (J. Conch. 10 : 143). The taxon represented by the nominal species Neorina sita is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the older-established nominal species Mycalesis (?) himachala Moore, 1857 (in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1) : 234, the type-species of Ethope Moore, 1866). The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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