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Athaliaeformia

Number: 3127.0
Author: Verity
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Athaliaeformia
Journal: Farfalle diurn. d'Italia
Year: 1950
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 89, 90, 157
Ref Id: 6049.0
Status: Junior objective synonym
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Melitaeini
Volume: 4
Senior Syn: CINCLIDIA
Senior Syn Author: Hübner
Senior Syn Page: 29
Senior Syn Year: 1819
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: by original designation
Type Sp Author: Rottemburg
Type Sp Journal: Naturforscher
Type Sp Page: 5
Type Sp Year: 1775
Type Sp Ref Id: 11068.0
Type Sp Genus: Papilio
Type Sp: athalia
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=ATHALIAEFORMIA', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- Verity introduced this name for what he called the "athalia gruppo" of Higgins (: 189) and later (: 157) for the genus Mellicta Billberg as interpreted by Higgins for the same group. It cannot be doubted that Verity intended to indicate that Papilio athalia was the type-species of the present subgeneric taxon, to which he then gave a name compounded of the specific name athalia, and it appears reasonable to conclude that the indications which he gave amounted, in his view, to the designation of that species as such. Accordingly, Athaliaeformia is here treated as having Papilio athalia as type-species by original designation, It will be realized that, as Athaliaeformia was published after 1930, it would automatically be an invalid name, if it were treated as having been published without a type-species. The view that it was so published was expressed by Higgins in 1955 (Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 106 : 4) when that author selected Papilio athalia to be the type-species. If in fact Athaliaeformia had been published without a designated type-species and, as a post-1930 name, it had as a consequence automatically been invalid, the selection of a type-species by a later author would not have validated it. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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