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Theope

Number: 28933.0
In Author: Horsfield & Moore
Author: Moore
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Theope
Journal: Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy
Year: 1858
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: 234
Part: (1)
Ref Id: 10595.0
Status: Junior homonym
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Zetherini
Senior Syn: ETHOPE
Senior Syn Author: Moore
Senior Syn Page: 770
Senior Syn Year: 1866
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Moore
Type Sp In Author: Horsfield & Moore
Type Sp Journal: Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy
Type Sp Page: 234
Type Sp Year: 1858
Type Sp Ref Id: 10595.0
Type Sp Genus: Mycalesis (?)
Type Sp: himachala
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=THEOPE']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- After describing the above species as being doubtfully a member of the genus Mycalesis Hübner, Moore added that this species might "be separated under the generic name of Theope Moore". The name Theope Moore, 1857, is invalid, as a junior homonym of Theope Doubleday, 1847. Two replacement names have been published, the earlier and valid name being Ethope Moore, [1866] (Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (3) : 770). Cowan (1970: 19) stated:- Moore "wrote the descriptive portions"; in Horsfield & Moore, 1857, Cat, lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy. 1, and is author of most of the new names therein. That statement occurs in the last paragraph of Horsfield's preface, which is dated 7 December 1857, as are page 278 and Appendix IV. Here is another dubious date, for which no further positive information has been found. Search continues. The dating may have been deliberate, but it is possible that Carus & Engelmann, 1861 (Biblioth. zool. 2 (1846-1860) (1) : 577), who are very reliable (and were probably copied by Hagen) were right in dating Volume 1 as [1858]. The India Office Librarian and the publishers Messrs. W. H. Allen have kindly made searches but found nothing. The earliest copy known to me was presented to J. O. Westwood "by Order of the Honble Court of Directors, 31 March 1858" and is endorsed "Thos. Horsfield, India House Library, 9 April 1858". This is significant. Westwood engraved the plates. In addition to references for numerous specific names, the dates for the following Moore genera remain at present in some doubt; ABROTA, CALINAGA, DILIPA, ENOPE, PUNDITS, THEOPE : and IDEOPSIS Horsfield. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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