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Tingra

Number: 29287.0
In Author: Delegorgue
Author: Boisduval
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Tingra
Journal: Voy. Afrique austr.
Year: 1847
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 589
Ref Id: 9064.0
Status: Suppressed name
Subfamily: Poritiinae
Subtribe: Pentilina
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Pentilini
Volume: 2
Senior Syn: PENTILA
Senior Syn Author: Westwood
Senior Syn Page: pl.76, fig. 7
Senior Syn Year: 1851
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Boisduval
Type Sp In Author: Delegorgue
Type Sp Journal: Voy. Afrique austr.
Type Sp Page: 589
Type Sp Year: 1847
Type Sp Ref Id: 9064.0
Type Sp Genus: Tingra
Type Sp: tropicalis
Memo Links: ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycaenidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=TINGRA']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- The name Tingra Boisduval was formerly a part of the Liptena/Pentila nomenclatorial complex, owing to the fact that it was itself completely neglected, and Tingra tropicalis, its type-species, was treated as a member of the genus Pentila Westwood [1851]. This question was dealt with by the Commission in its Opinion 566 published in 1959 (Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 20 : 377-390). In this Opinion the Commission used its Plenary Powers to suppress the name Tingra Boisduval for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of the Law of Homonymy, and placed it, so suppressed, on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 1279. At the same time Tingra tropicalis Boisduval was designated as the type-species of Pentila Westwood. By these measures Tingra fell formally into the synonymy of Pentila, thus giving valid force to the long-established use of that name. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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Dataset buttmoth
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