Biblis
| Number: | 3837.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| In Author: | Illiger | |
| Author: | Fabricius | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Biblis | |
| Journal: | Mag. Insektenk. | |
| Year: | 1807 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 281 | |
| Ref Id: | 1782.0 | |
| Series: | (Illiger) | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Biblidinae | |
| Subtribe: | Biblidina | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Biblidini | |
| Volume: | 6 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | (through Article 68.4 (absolute tautonymy)) | |
| Type Des Comment: | (under Article 68 (d)) | |
| Type Sp Author: | Fabricius | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82400#page/522/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema entomologiae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 505 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1775 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 1777.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | biblis | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=BIBLIS', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Biblis_a.htm', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- Scudder was one of numerous authors who considered that a generic name should be rejected if the word of which it consisted was the same as the specific name of its type-species (Scudder, 1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 127). It was presumably because of Scudder's action that for a long time the name Biblis fell out of use. This genus has been unlucky in the name applied to it, for from 1844 (Doubleday, List. Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1 : 144) onwards for many years the name Didonis Hübner, [1819], was wrongly applied to this genus. This was due no doubt to the fact that Papilio biblis Fabricius was one of the two originally included species in the genus Didonis. No author selected that species to be the type-species of Didonis, and, as shown above, even if any author had done so, the only effect would have been to make Didonis a junior objective synonym of Biblis Fabricius. After 1875 (Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 156) there was no possible justification for the continued use of the name Didonis in this way, for Scudder then selected as the type-species Papilio vitellia Stoll, [1781], the second of the two species placed in this genus by Hübner. This species is not even a Nymphalid, being an Elymniad Satyrid. The name Papilio biblis Fabricius, 1775, for the type-species of this genus is invalid, it being a junior homonym of Papilio biblis Drury, [1773] (Ill. nat. Hist. 1 : index et 9, pl. 4, fig. 2 (2 figs)). It is subjectively considered on taxonomic grounds that the oldest available name applicable to the present species is Papilio hyperia Cramer, [1779] (Uitl. Kapellen 3 (20) : 74, pl. 236, figs E, F). The specific name by which on the foregoing taxonomic view the type-species of Biblis Fabricius should be known is therefore hyperia Cramer. BIBLIS was included within the subfamily NYMPHALIDAE: LIMENITINAE by Ackery et al., in Kristensen (1999). Oppler & Warren, 2003. Butterflies of North America 2. Scientific Names List of Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico. Contributions of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity Colorado State University include Biblis in the subfamily Biblidinae. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). See images at Butterflies of America. |
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