Callianira
| Number: | 4689.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Hübner | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/46/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Callianira | |
| Journal: | Verz. bekannt. Schmett. | |
| Year: | 1819 | |
| Homonym Count: | 2.0 | |
| Page: | 38 | |
| Ref Id: | 2846.0 | |
| Status: | Junior homonym | |
| Subfamily: | Limenitidinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Limenitidini | |
| Senior Syn: | LIMENITIS | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Fabricius | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 281 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1807 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | by monotypy | |
| Type Sp Author: | Hübner | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/46/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Verz. bekannt. Schmett. | |
| Type Sp Page: | 38 | |
| Type Sp Page Comment: | as defined by the specimen shown as figure 1 on plate 25 of Stoll's Aanhangs. Werk. Uitl. Kapellen Pieter Cramer (published in 179 | |
| Type Sp Part: | (3) | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1819 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 2846.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Callianira | |
| Type Sp: | ephestiaena | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=CALLIANIRA', '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:- Hübner based the name Callianira ephestiaena on two bibliographical references; the first of these was to Papilio ephestion Stoll (referred to above), the second to Najas ephestion Hübner, [1813] (Samml. exot. Schmett 1 : pl. [67]). It is not known whether, when Hübner published the name Najas ephestion, he looked upon himself as establishing a new nominal species or whether the specific name ephestion which he then used was no more than a subsequent usage by him of the name ephestion Stoll. The status of the name Callianira ephestiaena Hübner differs according to which of these hypotheses is adopted. If the name ephestion as used by Hübner was not looked upon by him as a new name, the name Callianira ephestiaena is seen to be a straightforward - though unnecessary - replacement of the name Papilio ephestion Stoll. On this basis the lectotype of Stoll's ephestion is automatically the lectotype also of Callianira ephestiaena. If on the other hand, Hübner looked upon his Najas ephestion as a new name introduced by himself, the nominal species Callianira ephestiaena is seen to have been a new nominal species established on the basis jointly of Papilio ephestion Stoll and Najas ephestion Hübner. In that case Callianira ephestiaena would be without a type-specimen until some author selected a lectotype for it from among syntypes. The situation discussed above was met when in 1964 (in the paper cited at the head of the present note) I selected the specimen shown in figure 1 on plate 25 of Stoll's Aanhangsel to represent the lectotype (a) of Papilio ephestion Stoll (thus providing Callianira ephestiaena with a lectotype on the first of the alternatives outlined above) and (b) of Callianira ephestiaena (thus meeting the situation arising on the second of those alternatives). The taxon represented by the nominal species Callianira ephestiaena Hübner (i.e. the objectively identical Papilio ephestion Stoll) is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio astyanax Fabricius, 1775 (Syst. Ent. : 447). This latter is similarly treated subjectively as a subspecies of the taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio arthemis Drury, [1773] (Ill. nat. Hist. 2 : index et 17, pl. 10, figs 3, 4). The generic name Callianira Hübner is invalid under the Law of Homonymy, as it is junior homonym of Callianira Peron & Lesueur, 1810 (Ann. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris 15 (85) : 65), the name of a genus of Mollusca. Cowan (1968: 11) stated: [CALLIANIRA] line 3: "ephestaena" should read; ephestiaena" [type-species]. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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