Cynthia
| Number: | 7793.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| In Author: | Illiger | |
| Author: | Fabricius | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Cynthia | |
| Journal: | Mag. Insektenk. | |
| Year: | 1807 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 281 | |
| Ref Id: | 1782.0 | |
| Series: | (Illiger) | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Nymphalinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Nymphalini | |
| Volume: | 6 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 6443.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Westwood | |
| Type Des Year: | 1839 | |
| Type Des Journal: | Introd. mod. Classif. Insects | |
| Type Des Title: | An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families / by J. O. Westwood | |
| Type Des Volume: | 2 | |
| Type Des Part: | (Synopsis Genera Br. Insects) | |
| Type Des Page: | 87 | |
| Type Des Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45812#page/692/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Author: | Linnaeus | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/496/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema Naturae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 475 | |
| 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: | cardui | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=CYNTHIA', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio cardui, the type-species of the present genus, is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being congeneric with the taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio atalanta Linnaeus, the type-species of the genus bearing the very well-known name Vanessa Fabricius, 1807. The name Cynthia and Vanessa are thus subjective synonyms of one another. When this matter was considered in 1934, the First Reviser principle which then (as now) governed the relative precedence to be accorded to any two names published on the same date was widely disregarded by entomologists in favour of the principle of page and line precedence. The adoption of the second of these courses in the present instance would have involved the substitution of the name Cynthia Fabricius (published on page 281 as Species No. 11) for the name Vanessa Fabricius (published on page 281 as Species No. 12) The importance of protecting the name Vanessa from this risk was considered so great that it was decided to submit an application to the Commission for the adoption of an Opinion giving a ruling in terms which would protect the position of the name Vanessa Fabricius. The proposed approach to the Commission was made in February 1934 and a decision on it was reached by that body at its Session held at Lisbon in September 1935. For administrative and other reasons there was a considerable delay in promulgating the Lisbon decision. It was ultimately promulgated in Opinion 156, published in 1944 (Opin. int. Comm. Zool. Nom. 2 : 239-250). By the ruling so given the name Cynthia Fabricius was given precedence below the name Vanessa Fabricius. At the same time the name Vanessa Fabricius, endorsed as having precedence above Cynthia Fabricius, was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 601. The action required in this case was completed in 1954 (Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 2 : 629252), when in its Direction 4 the Commission endorsed the name Cynthia Fabricius as a name "to be used by any specialist who may consider that the type-species of this genus is generically distinct from Papilio atalanta Linnaeus, 1758 but not to be used in preference to the name Vanessa Fabricius, 1807". The name Cynthia Fabricius was thereupon placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology) as Name No. 805. Although prior to the rulings by the Commission set out above, the name Cynthia Fabricius had occasionally been used as the equivalent of Vanessa Fabricius, it had been much more widely used erroneously for a quite different group in the family Nymphalidae. This arose from the acceptance of the invalid action by Scudder in 1875 (Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci Boston 10 : 152) in selecting Papilio arsinoe Cramer, [1777] (Uitl. Kapellen 2 (14) : 100, pl. 160, figs B. C.) In consequence, that species was long without a valid name objectives applicable to it ; this deficiency was made good on the publication of the name Vindula Hemming, 1934. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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