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Arotes

Number: 2796.0
In Author: Doubleday
Author: Westwood
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49324#page/206/mode/2up
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Arotes
Journal: Gen. diurn. Lep.
Year: 1851
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 450
Ref Id: 6456.0
Status: Unavailable name
Subfamily: Riodininae
Subtribe: Nymphidiina
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Nymphidiini
Volume: 2
Senior Syn: SETABIS
Senior Syn Author: Westwood
Senior Syn Page: 450
Senior Syn Year: 1851
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des Ref Id: 7415.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Hemming
Type Des Year: 1941
Type Des Journal: J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist.
Type Des Title: Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History
Type Des Volume: 1
Type Des Part: (11)
Type Des Page: 434
Type Sp Author: Westwood
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49324#page/206/mode/2up
Type Sp In Author: Doubleday
Type Sp Journal: Gen. diurn. Lep.
Type Sp Page: 450, note
Type Sp Year: 1851
Type Sp Ref Id: 6456.0
Type Sp Genus: Aricoris (Setabis)
Type Sp: myrtis
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=AROTES', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riodinidae']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- The name Arotes was introduced by Westwood in the synonymy of Setabis Westwood as "Arotes Boisd. MS.". At a time when it was still uncertain what treatment should be accorded to names published in synonymies in this way I selected (1941) Aricoris (Setabis) myrtis Westwood, one of the species placed by Westwood in Setabis and therefore in Arotes, to be the type-species of Arotes, thereby making Arotes a junior objective synonym of Setabis. Since the foregoing type-selection was made, a provision has been inserted in the Code (Article II (d)) ruling that the publication of a name in a synonymy does not confer upon it the status of availability. Thus the name Arotes Westwood has been invalid from the time of its publication. Even if the name Arotes, when published in 1851, had not been published in the synonymy of another name and even if it were not a junior objective synonym of an older name, it would still have been invalid, for it is a junior homonym of the name Arotes Gravenhorst, 1829 (Ichneum. Europ. 1 (Conspectus) : 64). Cowan (1970: 25 stated:- "AROTES Westwood. [1851] : 450. Not available. Introduced as "Boisd. ms." in the synonymy of Setabis, used for a subgenus of Aricoris Westwood, in the heading "Setabis Doubl., Arotes Boisd. ms." Two valid species were included, for which Setabis Westwood has always been employed, and Arotes Westwood has never been raised from synonymy." The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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