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Ailus

Number: 860.0
Author: Billberg
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105024#page/92/mode/2up
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Ailus
Journal: Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb.
Year: 1820
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 81
Ref Id: 455.0
Status: Objective replacement name
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Leptocircini
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des: (through Article 67.8 (replacement names))
Type Sp Author: Fabricius
Type Sp Journal: Entomologia systematica
Type Sp Page: 34
Type Sp Page Comment: (of ZELIMA Fabricius, 1807)
Type Sp Part: (1)
Type Sp Year: 1793
Type Sp Ref Id: 9553.0
Type Sp Genus: Papilio
Type Sp: pylades
Memo Links: ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilionidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=AILUS']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- The position as regards this name is similar to that of the name Triphysa Zeller, 1850, described in detail in the note on that name. It is sufficient here to note that both these names were names published as replacements for earlier names which were invalid as junior homonyms of names published by Meigen in 1800. In the present case the earlier homonym was Zelima Meigen, 1800 (Nouv. Classif. Mouches deux Ailes : 34). The position of these replacement names would have been completely upset, if when dealing with an application submitted on behalf of dipterists for the suppression under the Plenary Powers of Meigen's Nouv. classif., the Commission had acceeded to that request without taking special measures to protect the position of the names in the Order Lepidoptera here under consideration. The decision taken in that case included a provision under which the, names which were junior homonyms of Meigen, 1800 names and had long ago been replaced were themselves suppressed under the Plenary Powers for the purpose of the Law of Priority but not for that of the Law of Homonymy, the position of the replacement names involved being thus completely protected. Under this decision, which was embodied in the Commission's Opinion 678 published in October 1963 (Bull. zool. Nom. 20 : 339-342), the name Zelima Fabricius, 1807, was suppressed under the Plenary Powers for the purposes of the Law of Priority but was expressly kept alive for the purposes of the Law of Homonymy, the position of the replacement name Ailus Billberg, 1820, being thus fully safeguarded. Regarded as a junior subjective synonym of ARISBE Hübner, 1819 (pers. comm. Campbell Smith) 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