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Cosmodesmus

Number: 7196.0
Author: Haase
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Cosmodesmus
Journal: Bibl. zool.
Year: 1891
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 15
Part: (8)(1)(1)
Ref Id: 2297.0
Status: Junior objective synonym
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Leptocircini
Volume: 3
Senior Syn: PROTESILAUS
Senior Syn Author: Swainson
Senior Syn Page: pl.93
Senior Syn Year: 1832
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des Ref Id: 2553.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Hemming
Type Des Year: 1964
Type Des Journal: Annot. lep.
Type Des Title: Annotationes lepidopterologicae / Hepburn and Sons, London
Type Des Part: (4)
Type Des Page: 135
Type Sp Author: Linnaeus
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/484/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Systema Naturae
Type Sp Page: 463
Type Sp Series: (Edn 10)
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1758
Type Sp Ref Id: 3527.0
Type Sp Genus: Papilio
Type Sp: protesilaus
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=COSMODESMUS', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilionidae']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- Commenting on this name, Kirby in 1896 (in Allen's Nat. Libr., Lepid. 2 : 272) stated:- "We may perhaps restrict this name, used by Haase with a very wide extension, to the following species (protesilaus Linn.) and its allies." Formerly, I looked upon this as constituting the selection of the above species as the type-species of this genus, but later I took the view that, although Kirby certainly intended that this species should be regarded as typifying Cosmodesmus, the words quoted here - and, in particular, the use of the word "perhaps" - fall short of a definite type-selection. Accordingly, in order to dispel any doubts on this subject, I myself in 1964 selected Papilio protesilaus as type-species. The name Cosmodesmus Haase, so defined, is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of the name Protesilaus Swainson, 1832. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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Dataset buttmoth
Dataset ID f8bc9b9c-009a-4689-bd01-ed621095c457
Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
Resource ID c1727662-2d1e-426f-818c-d144552a747c