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Mecyna

Number: 17271.0
Author: Doubleday
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Mecyna
Journal: A Synonymic List of British Lepidoptera
Year: 1849
Homonym Count: 2.0
Page: 14
Ref Id: 1481.0
Series: (2 [Edn 2])
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Spilomelinae
Superfamily: Pyraloidea
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: Hübner
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89072#page/60/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Samml. eur. Schmett.
Type Sp Page: pl.29, fig.185
Type Sp Volume: 6
Type Sp Year: 1813
Type Sp Ref Id: 7563.0
Type Sp Genus: Pyralis
Type Sp: asinalis
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MECYNA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crambidae']
Memo: Fletcher & Nye (1984) stated:- Mecyna was a Gueneé manuscript name made nomenclaturally available by Doubleday. The date of publication of the part of Doubleday's List is taken from Griffin, 1937, J. Soc. Biblphy nat. Hist. 1 (3): 87. Shaffer (pers. comm.) treats MECYNA in the CRAMBIDAE: SPILOMELINAE.

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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