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Diloba

Number: 8592.0
Author: Boisduval
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Diloba
Journal: Genera Index meth. Eur. Lepid.
Year: 1840
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: 88
Ref Id: 9061.0
Status: Junior objective synonym
Subfamily: Dilobinae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Senior Syn: DILOBA
Senior Syn Author: Boisduval
Senior Syn Page: 189
Senior Syn Year: 1837
Type Country: [EUROPE]
Type Depository: (LS, London)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: Type(s)
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Linnaeus
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/526/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Systema Naturae
Type Sp Page: 504
Type Sp Series: (Edn 10)
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1758
Type Sp Ref Id: 3527.0
Type Sp Genus: Phalaena
Type Sp: caeruleocephala
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=DILOBA']
Memo: Nye (1975) stated:- Diloba Boisduval, 1840, was considered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1957, Opin. Decl. int. Commn zool. Nom. 17 Opinion 494: 267, and placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology: Name No. 1233. There was, however, an earlier usage i.e. Diloba Boisduval, [1837] 1834, Icones hist. Lepid. nouv. ou peu connus 2: 189. This, by original reference was overlooked by the Commission in Opinion 494 but fortunately Diloba Boisduval [1837] was based on the same species. P. caeruleocephala has been placed in the Notodontidae, Thyatiridae, and in the Noctuidae subfamily Plusiinae. Boursin, 1953, Bull. mens. Soc. linn. Lyon 22: 125, placed it in the Pantheiinae. Kiriakofi, 1970, NachrBl. bayer. Ent. 19: 101, considered that on the basis of tympanal characters, D. caeruleocephala does not belong to the Noctuidae but should be placed on its own in the family Dilobidae. This family-group name had already been proposed as Dilobinae Aurivillius, 1889, Nordens Fjarilar: 79, 95, and placed on the Official List of Family-group Names in Zoology: Name No. 198. Fletcher, 1972, in Kloet & Hincks, Check List Br. Insects (Edn. 2) 2: 70, has retained Diloba in the Notodontidae.

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Dataset buttmoth
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Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
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