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Helias

Number: 13061.0
In Author: Illiger
Author: Fabricius
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Helias
Journal: Mag. Insektenk.
Year: 1807
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 287
Ref Id: 1782.0
Series: (Illiger)
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Pyrginae
Superfamily: Hesperioidea
Tribe: Pyrgini
Volume: 6
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des Ref Id: 8757.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Butler
Type Des Year: 1870
Type Des Journal: Ent. mon. Mag.
Type Des Title: Entomologists Monthly Magazine
Type Des Volume: 7
Type Des Part: (76)
Type Des Page: 98
Type Des Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/102841#page/132/mode/2up
Type Sp Author: Hübner
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44052#page/316/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Samml. exot. Schmett.
Type Sp Page: pl.[152]
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1812
Type Sp Ref Id: 2837.0
Type Sp Genus: Urbanus
Type Sp: phalaenoides
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperiidae', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=HELIAS', 'http://butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Helias_a.htm']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- Fabricius established this genus with a short diagnosis but without citing any established nominal species as belonging to it. He did however, enter under Helias the manuscript specific name phalaenoides. Thereafter, this name was unnoticed until in 1862 (Wien. ent. Monats. 6 : 186-187) it was revived by Cajetan & Rudolf Felder who expressed the view that it ought to be brought into use and who thereupon placed in it a considerable number of nominal species, one of which was Urbanus phalaenoides Hübner, [1812] ; this species was selected as type-species by Butler in 1870. Thus, ultimately, the species which Fabricius no doubt had in mind, when on establishing the genus Helias he cited the manuscript specific name phalaenoides became the type-species of Helias. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). See images at Butterflies of America where it is treated in the Pyrrginae: Carcharodini.

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Dataset buttmoth
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Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
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