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Telesilla

Number: 28601.0
Author: Herrich-Schäffer
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Telesilla
Journal: Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Europ.
Year: 1856
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 47
Part: (Index universalis)
Ref Id: 2651.0
Status: Junior homonym
Subfamily: Hadeninae
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Volume: 6
Senior Syn: EUCARTA
Senior Syn Author: Lederer
Senior Syn Page: 41, 168
Senior Syn Year: 1857
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=TELESILLA', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctuidae']
Memo: Nye (1975) stated:- Telesilla was proposed as the objective replacement name for Placodes Boisduval, 1840. Unfortunately it was a junior homonym of Telesilla Reichenbach, 1853, J. Orn. Lpz. 1 Extraheft Beil. (Aufz. Colibris): 5, - Aves. As an added complication the name was spelled as Telesiella on page 13. From this multiple original spelling Cabanis & Heine, 1860, Mus. Orn. Heinearum 3: 27 selected Telesilla and listed Telesiella in synonymy. Simon, 1921, Hist. nat. Trochilidae (Synopsis et Cat.): 272 used Telesilla and listed Telesilla as an emendation of Cabanis & Heine. Neither of these multiple original spelling are now in use for humming birds as they are junior subjective synonyms. I can find no reference to these spellings between 1853 and 1860 so accept the selection of Cabanis & Heine as first revisers under the Code, Article 32(b). See: EUCARTA Lederer, 1857. Poole (1989) included PLACODES Boisduval, 1840; TELESILLA Herrich-Schäffer, 1856; CALLOGONIA Hampson, 1908; DEXIADENA Filipjev, 1927; and GOONALLICA Nye, 1975 as junior synonyms of EUCARTA Lederer, 1857.

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