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Heurema

Number: 13541.0
Author: Herrich-Schäffer
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Heurema
Journal: Corresp.-Bl. zool.-min. Ver. Regensburg
Year: 1865
Homonym Count: 3.0
Of Value: ;
Page: 89
Part: (6)
Ref Id: 9968.0
Status: Junior homonym
Subfamily: Coliadinae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Volume: 19
Senior Syn: LEUCIDIA
Senior Syn Author: Doubleday
Senior Syn Page: 77
Senior Syn Year: 1847
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des: by monotypy
Type Sp Author: van Vollenhoven
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35194#page/84/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Essai Faun. ent. Archipel Indo-Néderland., Monogr.
Type Sp Of: ;
Type Sp Page: 70, pl.7, fig.5
Type Sp Part: (Pierid.)
Type Sp Year: 1865
Type Sp Ref Id: 8423.0
Type Sp Genus: Terias
Type Sp: impura
Memo Links: ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=HEUREMA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieridae']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- (repaged offprint as Prodomus ... 1 : 71). This alleged name owes its origin to a misunderstanding on the part of Herrich-Schäffer, by whom it was attributed to Agassiz and used for the same species as Doubleday in 1844 had placed in his then new genus Eurema (a genus of the family Nymphalidae). The mistake made by Herrich-Schäffer was in thinking that Agassiz had introduced the name Heurema as an emendation of the Nymphalid genus Eurema Doubleday, 1844 ; what in fact that author had done was to introduce the name Heurema as an emendation of the Pierid genus Eurema Hübner, [1819]. Herrich-Schäffer would never have introduced the name Heurema, if it had not been for this misreading of the action of Agassiz; in this sense therefore there is, properly speaking, no such genus as Heurema Herrich-Schäffer. If that author had deliberately introduced the name Heurema, it would have been a junior objective synonym of Eurema Doubleday, and as pointed out by myself in 1939 (Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 8 : 134) the genus so established would have had as its type-species Papilio lethe Fabricius, 1793 (Ent. syst 3 (1) : 80), that being the type-species of Eurema Doubleday. Cowan (1970: 14) stated:- "1846 to read [1847]", [genus year]. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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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