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Callithea

Number: 4783.0
Author: Feisthamel
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/114196#page/338/mode/2up
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Callithea
Journal: Magasin Zool. Paris
Year: 1835
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: Cl 9, pl.122 et explic
Ref Id: 1800.0
Series: (Cl. IX Insects.)
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Subtribe: Epiphilina
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Biblidini
Volume: 5
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: (through Article 68.4 (absolute tautonymy))
Type Sp Author: Godart
Type Sp Journal: Encycl. méth. Hist. nat.
Type Sp Page: 324
Type Sp Part: (Ins.) (1)
Type Sp Year: 1819
Type Sp Ref Id: 9715.0
Type Sp Genus: Vanessa
Type Sp: callithea
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=CALLITHEA', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae']
Memo: Cowan (1970: 17) stated:- "Callithea Feisthamel, 1835 was tautonymic with Vanessa callithea Godart, 1819, not monotypic for C. leprieuri Feisthamel, 1835. Cyane Felder, 1861 is consequently valid. The circumstances were as follows. Mag. Zool 5 (livr. 1 ?) : pl. (IX, Ins.) 122, & text. [31 March 1835 ?.] Bull. soc. ent. France 3 (4) : lxvii [31 March 1835] [Bull. soc. ent. France] 4 (1) : [xxxi] (erratum) [July 1835] At the meeting of the Société Entomologique de la France on 19 November 1834, Feisthamel read a paper on the new genus which was reported in the second of the three references above. He said; "The genus Callithea has been formed on callithea Godart (Encyclopédie p. 324) [i.e. Vanessa callithea Godart, 1819] . . . Vanessa callithea, another species published by Niebuhr under the name sapphira, and Callithea leprieuri [a new third species not here described] are all the species yet known of this new genus." The erratum emphasised that these three were distinct species, and explained that "Niebuhr" should have read Hübner. It also proposed the replacement name godarti for C. callithea to avoid tautonymy. At about the same time, in Guérin-Méneville's Magazin at the first reference above, Feisthamel published exactly the same particulars without errors or omissions, and in addition gave his full description and pleasing plate for C. leprieuri. It is quite clear that in both original descriptions the type-species of Callithea Feisthamel, 1835 was Vanessa callithea Godart, 1819 (Enc. Méth. 9 (1) : 324) by tautonymy as well as by original designation. The problem is to know which was the earlier "original" description. An extensive search has not solved it, the nearest estimates placing both at or just before 31 March 1835. Hemming's reference is therefore left standing, while the necessary corrections to the generic data are made in the Corrigenda chapter below. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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