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Melicleptria

Number: 17496.0
Author: Hübner
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/270/mode/2up
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Melicleptria
Journal: Verz. bekannt. Schmett.
Year: 1823
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 262
Ref Id: 2856.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Heliothinae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Type Country: [AUSTRIA]
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: Vienna district
Types: Type(s) - male
Type Des Ref Id: 7323.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Grote
Type Des Year: 1873
Type Des Journal: Bull. Buff. Soc. nat. Sci.
Type Des Title: Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences / Buffalo, New York
Type Des Volume: 1
Type Des Page: 116
Type Des Comment: (of Heliothis)
Type Des Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/65238#page/126/mode/2up
Type Sp Author: Hübner
Type Sp Journal: Beitr. Gesch. Schmett.
Type Sp Page: 84, pl.1, fig.B
Type Sp Page Comment: (but cited as cardui Esper, an incorrect authorship)
Type Sp Part: (4)
Type Sp Volume: 2
Type Sp Year: 1790
Type Sp Ref Id: 10057.0
Type Sp Genus: Phalaena
Type Sp: cardui
Memo Links: ['http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=MELICLEPTRIA']
Memo: Nye (1975) stated:- Phalaena (Noctua) cardui Hübner, 1790, is a junior primary homonym of Phalaena (Tortrix) cardui Ström, 1783, Nye Saml. K. dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skr. 2:87. There is no objective replacement name but a subspecific name Heliothis cardui purpurata Staudinger, 1901, in Staudinger & Rebel, Cat. Lepid. palaearct. Faunengeb. (1):221, is available and could be used as a subjective replacement name, i.e. Melicleptria purpurata (Staudinger). The senior homonym Phalaena cardui Ström has remained unused for over 150 years, probably ever since it was published. The original description does not really fit any known species, and no Ström types are extant. In my opinion in this case the Int. Commn zool. Nom. should be asked to suppress the senior homonym under the Code, Article 79, for the purposes both of the Law of Priority and of the Law of Homonymy. Poole (1989) included MELICLEPTRIA Hübner, 1823; ANTHOECIA Boisduval, 1840; ALARIA Duncan & Westwood, 1841 (precoccupied); TRYPANA Guenée, 1841; ORIA Guenée, 1852 (preoccupied); RHODOPHORA Guenée, 1852; TAMILA Guenée, 1852; EULEUCYPTERA Grote, 1865; LYGRANTHOECIA Grote & Robinson, 1873; TRICOPIS Grote, 1874; ADONISEA Grote, 1875; HELIOPHANA Grote, 1875; OXYLOS Grote, 1875; PIPPONA Grote, 1875; PORRIMA Grote, 1877; RHODODIPSA Grote, 1877; BESSULA Grote, 1881; DASYSPOUDAEA Smith, 1883 (as DASYSPOUDOEA on page 892); TRILEUCA Grote, 1883; PSEUDOTAMILA Smith, 1893; CANIDIA Grote, 1890; EUPANYCHIS Grote, 1890; TRICHOSELLUS Grote, 1890; THYREION Smith, 1891; INCITA Grote, 1895; PALADA Smith, 1900; and CHLOROCLEPTRIA Hampson, 1903 as junior synonyms of SCHINIA Hübner, 1818. MELICLEPTRIA Hübner, [1823] 1816 was treated as a valid genus, revalidated by Beck, 1996, Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 36 : 44.

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Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
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