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Atropos

Number: 3217.0
Author: Oken
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Atropos
Journal: Lehrb. Naturgesch.
Year: 1815
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: 762
Part: (1)
Ref Id: 4344.0
Series: (Zool.)
Status: Rejected name
Subfamily: Sphinginae
Superfamily: Bombycoidea
Tribe: Acherontiini
Volume: 3
Senior Syn: ACHERONTIA
Senior Syn Author: Laspeyres
Senior Syn Page: 100
Senior Syn Year: 1809
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=ATROPOS']
Memo: Fletcher & Nye (1982) stated:- Included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenlature, 1956, Opin. Decl. int. Commn zool. Nom. 14 (Opinion 417): 3. Only originally included species: Sphinx atropos Linnaeus, 1758 (see below). Oken placed S. atropos as an objective synonym of an unnecessary replacement name * Atropos * Solani; the specific name is unavailable for the same reason as * Atropos Oken. Kitching & Cadiou (2000) list * ATROPOS Oken, 1815; ATROPOS Agassiz, 1846; BRACHYGLOSSA Boisduval, 1828; and * MANDUCA Hübner, 1806 as junior names of ACHERONTIA Laspeyres, 1809.

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