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Zelima

Number: 30955.0
In Author: Illiger
Author: Fabricius
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Zelima
Journal: Mag. Insektenk.
Year: 1807
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 279
Ref Id: 1782.0
Series: (Illiger)
Status: Suppressed name
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Leptocircini
Volume: 6
Senior Syn: AILUS
Senior Syn Author: Billberg
Senior Syn Page: 81
Senior Syn Year: 1820
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Fabricius
Type Sp Journal: Entomologia systematica
Type Sp Page: 34
Type Sp Part: (1)
Type Sp Year: 1793
Type Sp Ref Id: 9553.0
Type Sp Genus: Papilio
Type Sp: pylades
Memo Links: ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=ZELIMA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilionidae']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- [a taxon bearing a name invalid because a junior homonym of Papilio pylades Stoll, [1782] (in Cramer, Uitl. Kapellen 4 (33) : 200, pl. 387, figs A, B)] The position of this name is exactly similar to that of the name Phryne Herrich-Schaeffer, 1844, already described. That is, until recently it was invalid, as being a junior homonym of a name (Zelima) published by Meigen in 1800 as the name for a genus of Diptera. Like the name Phryne, the name Zelima Fabricius would have become an available name if the Commission had approved without qualification an application submitted to it on behalf workers in the Diptera that Meigen's Nouvelle Classification - and consequently all the new names in it - should be suppressed under the Plenary Powers. This undesirable result was prevented by the decision to suppress the name Zelima Fabricius for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of the Law of Homonymy, the name so suppressed, being there-upon placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 1657. This decision was promulgated by the Commission in its Opinion 678, published in October 1963 (Bull. zool Nom. 20 : 339-342). The name Zelima Fabricius was replaced by Billberg by the name Ailus for reasons which he did not explain but which were certainly unconnected with the earlier use of that name by Meigen, of the existence of which he was unaware. Under the decision taken by the Commission in 1963, described above, Zelima Meigen, 1800, was totally suppressed, while Zelima Fabricius was suppressed for priority but not for homonymy. Accordingly, the name Ailus Billberg remains available for use of the Papilionid genus concerned. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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