Creteus
| Number: | 7349.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| In Author: | Doubleday | |
| Author: | Westwood | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49324#page/266/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Hesperiidae | |
| Genus: | Creteus | |
| Journal: | Gen. diurn. Lep. | |
| Year: | 1852 | |
| Homonym Count: | 2.0 | |
| Page: | 511 | |
| Ref Id: | 6458.0 | |
| Status: | Unavailable name | |
| Subfamily: | Pyrginae | |
| Superfamily: | Hesperioidea | |
| Tribe: | Eudamini | |
| Volume: | 2 | |
| Senior Syn: | ASTRAPTES | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Hübner | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 103 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1819 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des: | (through Article 68.4 (absolute tautonymy)) | |
| Type Des Comment: | (under Article 68 (d)) | |
| Type Sp Author: | Cramer | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95037#page/354/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Uitl. Kapellen | |
| Type Sp Page: | 163, pl.284, figs C-D | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 3 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1780 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 6915.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | creteus | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperiidae', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=CRETEUS'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- This name was published by Westwood in the synonymy of Goniloba (then also a new name). Westwood attributed the name creteus to Hübner, but this was a mistake, because Hübner never published a generic name consisting of this word. The first species placed by Westwood in Goniloba and therefore also in its synonym Creteus was Papilio creteus Cramer, which therefore becomes the type-species of Creteus Westwood by tautonymy, as was pointed out by myself in 1941 (J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 1 : 443). Since I dealt with this name in 1941, the position has changed completely through the action of the Fifteenth International Congress of Zoology, London, 1958, in inserting in the revised Code a provision in Article II (d), under which a name published in a synonymy acquires no status in zoological nomenclature thereby. The name Creteus Westwood, [1852], is therefore invalid Cowan (1968: 12) stated:- CRETEUS Westwood, last word: "invalid" should read; not available. Cowan (1970: 26) stated:- "CRETEUS Westwood, [1852] : 511" Hemming, 1967 : 129. A myth, or lapsus. Westwood proposed the new generic name Goniloba, and in his subtitle for the discussion of the genus he marshalled its synonyms; "Eudamus p., Boisd.; Epargyreus, Creteus, Talides, Astraptes, Thracides, Telegonus, Proteides p., Hübner". After discussing the genus in general he tabulated the 81 included species (: 512-514), giving the synonymy of each. One thus looks here for citation of each of the generic synonyms. Each appears at least once, except only "Creteus". Eudamus is cited in the synonymy of species nos. 19-21, 74; Epargyreus twice (misspelt once) for no. 22; Talides for nos. 75, 76, and so on. Seven additional names are cited, of which six are discussed elsewhere in the work. The seventh is Carystus Hübner, cited in the synonymy of species no. 58, G. lucretius Latr.... "Caristus" lapithes Hübner. The only explanation possible for Westwood's citation of "Creteus Hübner" (which does not exist) in his subtitle, and for his omission there of Carystus Hübner, is that, in bringing forward the name Carystus (or "Caristus") from the table of species for marshalling in the subtitle, Westwood accidentally, as his pen passed over species no. 1 in the list (G. creteus), substituted that specific name. As a newly published name, "Creteus Hübner" Westwood, 1852 was thus accompanied "in the original publication" by "clear evidence of an inadvertent error" (Article 32 (a) (ii)), requiring emendation under Article 33 (a). I therefore emend it to read Carystus Hübner. If this had not been the case, the facts that Hemming, 1939 (Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 8 : 39) treated "Creteus Westwood, 1851" as an available name, designated a type-species, and stated that it was a senior homonym of Creteus de Niceville, 1895 (for which he then proposed the replacement Cyrina), would have made this non-existent name available under Article 11 (d) as re???? The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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