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Eriogaster

Number: 10391.0
Author: Germar
Family: Lasiocampidae
Genus: Eriogaster
Journal: Diss. sistens Bombycum Species
Year: 1810
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 16
Part: (1)
Ref Id: 2028.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Lasiocampinae
Superfamily: Lasiocampoidea
Type Country: [EUROPE]
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: Type(s)
Type Des Ref Id: 6444.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Westwood
Type Des Year: 1840
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: 89
Type Des Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45812#page/694/mode/2up
Type Sp Author: Linnaeus
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/520/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Systema Naturae
Type Sp Page: 499
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: lanestris
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=ERIOGASTER', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasiocampidae']
Memo: Fletcher & Nye (1982) stated:- Invalid designation of type-species: Phalaena lanestris Linnaeus, 1758, was also designated by Boisduval, 1836, Hist. nat. Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.) 1: 129, 143. In the Introduction to the volume, pages 1-154, Boisduval reviewed earlier classifications of Lepidoptera and designated up to three different type-species for each generic name. In his `Exposé de notre méthode`, pages 155-690, no type-species designation was made for any of the generic names that he himself used. Under the Code, Article 69(a)(iii), the type-designation of an author is eligible for consideration if he states that it is the type `... and if it is clear that he himself accepts it as type-species'. Boisduval's type-dsignations, although clearly stated, do not fulfil the last requirement and so are invalid. Even though Boisduval's 1836 work was well known to lepidopterists, the type-species designation contained in it to lepidopterists, the type-species designations contained in it have not been accepted, either by Hemming or by other authors.

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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