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Carama

Number: 5051.0
Author: Walker
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120193#page/82/mode/2up
Family: Megalopygidae
Genus: Carama
Journal: List Spec. lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.
Year: 1855
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 778 [key], 843
Part: (4)
Ref Id: 6164.0
Status: Available name
Superfamily: Zygaenoidea
Type Country: MEXICO
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: Para, (Bates)
Types: Type(s)
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Des Comment: (but included by Walker as Arcturus sparshalli Curtis, a misidentification).
Type Sp Author: Butler
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41059#page/230/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Cist. ent.
Type Sp Page: 203
Type Sp Volume: 2
Type Sp Year: 1877
Type Sp Ref Id: 6819.0
Type Sp Genus: Carama
Type Sp: walkeri
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopygidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=CARAMA']
Memo: Fletcher & Nye (1982) stated:- Butler, 1877, showed that Walker's diagnosis of Carama was based on specimens that he had misidentified as Arcturus sparshalli Curtis; Butler then established a new nominal species Carama walkeri Butler, 1887, for the misidentified specimens and one from Mexico. See Frontispiece, fig.2, Carama walkeri Butler, male. The true Arcturus sparshalli Curtis, 1830, is the type-species of Trichiocercus Stephens, 1835, in the Thaumetopoeidae. Under Article 70(a) of the Code the case of a misidentified type-species should be referred to the Commission. Carama was established in the Liparidae, now Lymantriidae; it was transferred to the Megalopygidae by Berg, 1882, An. Soc. cient. argent. 13: 264, 275.

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Dataset buttmoth
Dataset ID f8bc9b9c-009a-4689-bd01-ed621095c457
Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
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