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Catargynnis

Number: 5269.0
In Author: Staudinger & Schatz
Author: Röber
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101266#page/298/mode/2up
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Catargynnis
Journal: Exot. Schmett.
Year: 1892
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 284 [note]
Part: (6)
Ref Id: 4922.0
Status: Junior objective synonym
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Satyrini
Volume: Theil 2
Senior Syn: PSEUDOMANIOLA
Senior Syn Author: Röber
Senior Syn Page: 222
Senior Syn Year: 1889
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des: (through Article 67.8 (replacement names))
Type Sp Author: Staudinger
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123838#page/513/mode/2up
Type Sp In Author: Staudinger & Schatz
Type Sp Journal: Exot. Schmett.
Type Sp Page: pl.84
Type Sp Part: (17)
Type Sp Year: 1887
Type Sp Ref Id: 5497.0
Type Sp Genus: Daedalma
Type Sp: pholoe
Memo Links: ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=CATARGYNNIS']
Memo: "Hemming (1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. Suppl 9: 99) stated:- Earlier in the same volume - also in 1892 - Röber established a new nominal genus to which he gave the name Pseudomaniola (: 222), without realizing that in 1890 Weymer had used the same name for a quite different genus. Just as the last part of this portion of the Exot. Schmett. was going to press, Röber realized that the name Pseudomaniola that he had published was invalid under the Law of Homonymy as a junior homonym of Pseudomaniola Weymer, 1890 ; he remedied this in a footnote on the last page of the index, introducing there the replacement name Catargynnis here in question. Cowan (1968: 11) stated:- CATARGYNNIS: delete 2nd para. see note 5 [below] Cowan (1968: (p.16-17) stated:- Two widely different genera of Neotropical Satyridae compete for the four interlocking names Pseudomaniola Röber, 1889 (nec 1892), Pseudomaniola Weymer, 1890, Catargynnis Röber, 1892, and Neomaniola Hayward, 1949. Hemming's List [Hemming, 1967] gives the references and type-species of each correctly, but dates the first name "1892" although Trophonina, described by Röber on the same page in 1889, is given its correct date. Consequently, and also through misreading Röber's explanatory note when proposing Catargynnis, Hemming's historical remarks are at fault. What actually happened was that Röber and Weymer independently proposed the same name Pseudomaniola for two quite different genera, Weymer being the later. Then, in 1892, when ending the concluding part of his book, Röber explained exactly what had happened and added that, to preserve Weymer's genus, he would rename his own as Catargynnis. This well-intentioned act, even to him as First Reviser, was ultra vires. Unfortunately Röber's wishes were respected by succeeding writers, notably Weymer himself in Seitz (Grschm. Erde 5 : 268), and so Pseudomaniola Weymer (the junior homonym) and Catargynnis Röber (a junior objective synonym) became widely used. This mispractice was ended by Hayward in 1949, when he reinstated Pseudomaniola Röber and replaced Weymer's homonym by Neomaniola. So in the List [Hemming, 1967], Pseudomaniola Röber, 1889 (nec 1892), and Neomaniola Hayward, 1949 should be shown, with their type-species, as both available and valid; and Pseudomaniola Weymer, 1890 and Catargynnis Röber should be shown as invalid. Cowan (1970: 44) stated:- CATARGYNNIS line 3 "[1892] . . . (Th. 2) to read - [l887] . . . (Th. 1). Line 1 is correct", [type-species year & volume]. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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