Echidna
| Number: | 9329.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Hübner | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44052#page/356/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Saturniidae | |
| Genus: | Echidna | |
| Journal: | Samml. exot. Schmett. | |
| Year: | 1807 | |
| Homonym Count: | 2.0 | |
| Page: | pl.[173] | |
| Ref Id: | 2831.0 | |
| Status: | Junior homonym | |
| Subfamily: | Saturniinae | |
| Superfamily: | Bombycoidea | |
| Volume: | 1 | |
| Senior Syn: | PLECTROPTERON | |
| Senior Syn Author: | Hutton | |
| Senior Syn Page: | 60 | |
| Senior Syn Year: | 1846 | |
| Type Country: | [INDIA] | |
| Type Depository: | (? Depository) | |
| Type Locality: | [Eastern] | |
| Types: | Type(s) | |
| Type Des: | by monotypy | |
| Type Des Comment: | (plate labelled as 'Luna', a misidentification) | |
| Type Sp Author: | Hübner | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44052#page/360/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Samml. exot. Schmett. | |
| Type Sp Page: | pl.[174] | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1807 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 2831.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Echidna | |
| Type Sp: | selene | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=ECHIDNA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturniidae'] | |
| Memo: | Fletcher & Nye (1982) stated:- A junior homonym of Echidna Forster, 1788, Enchiridion: 78, - Pisces. There is no objective replacement name, but E. selene is conspecific with Plectropteron dianae Hutton, 1846, the type-species of Plectropteron Hutton, 1846; the latter is thus available for use as a subjective replacement name. Hübner illustrated Echidna selene on these unnumbered plates in the Samml. exot. Schmett. 1: plate [172], published in [1810], shows two views of the male, fig.1 with the wings spread, fig.2 with the wings folded and is labelled `Echidna caudata Selene'; plate [173], published in [1807], shows a female specimen of selene with the wings spread, but the plate was labelled `Echidna caudata Luna' in error; plate [174], published in [1813], shows a female of selene with the wings folded and this plate is labelled `Echidna caudata selene'. Hübner was evidently uncertain of the identity of his female specimen, for the pattern plates of plates [173] and [174] in the library of the BMNH each bear both names, `Luna' and `Selene'. However, when the Index Systematicus to volume 1 of the work. | |
| Type Comments: | The type-locality cited is taken from Hübner's manuscript, where it is listed as `Ostr-Indien'. |
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