Carterocephalus
| Number: | 5148.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Lederer | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42791439#page/205/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Hesperiidae | |
| Genus: | Carterocephalus | |
| Journal: | Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien | |
| Year: | 1853 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 49 | |
| Ref Id: | 3456.0 | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Heteropterinae | |
| Superfamily: | Hesperioidea | |
| Volume: | 2 | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 5223.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Scudder | |
| Type Des Year: | 1875 | |
| Type Des Journal: | Proc. amer. acad. Arts Sci., Boston | |
| Type Des Title: | Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston | |
| Type Des Volume: | 10 | |
| Type Des Part: | (2) | |
| Type Des Page: | 134 | |
| Type Des Comment: | (as a junior name of paloemon) | |
| Type Des Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22173#page/142/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Author: | Fabricius | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82400#page/548/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema entomologiae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 531 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1775 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 1777.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | paniscus | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperiidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=CARTEROCEPHALUS', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Carterocephalus_a.htm'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- This generic name has an unfortunate history, both as to the way in which it was introduced and as to the way in which its type-species was subsequently selected. Lederer cited three nominal species as belonging to this genus, the first of these being Papilio paniscus Fabricius. At the time when Lederer published the name Carterocephalus, the nominal species Papilio paniscus and its allies were commonly placed in the genus Steropes Boisduval as employed by that author in 1836 (Roret's Suite à Buffon), Hist. nat. Ins., spec. gen. 1 : pl. 13, fig. 7 (Steropes paniscus). This usage was incorrect because the foregoing was not the first work in which Boisduval used the name Steropes; he had in fact already used it in 1832 (in d'Urville, Voy. "Astrolabe", Faune ent. 1 (Lép.) : 167). It was because Lederer realized that Boisduval's later usage (in 1836) of the name Steropes was untenable that, as he explained in a supplementary note on page 49, he decided to introduce the name Carterocephalus for Papilio paniscus and its allies which he perceived were without a generic name applicable to them. Scudder in 1875 (Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 134) treated the generic name Carterocephalus with rather less than his usual acumen. First, while noting Lederer's remark that this name was introduced to take the place of Steropes Boisduval and duly recording the usages of this name by Boisduval in 1832 in d'Urville, Voy. "Astrolabe" and in 1836 in Roret's Suite à Buffon, he concluded that the name Carterocephalus had been published by Lederer as nom. nov. pro Steropes Boisduval of the "Astrolabe". He clearly realized however that this treatment was inconsistent both with Lederer's definition of Carterocephalus and also with the species included by Lederer in his genus, though these were themselves consistent with that definition. He sought to get over this difficulty - quite illogically, on the premises which he adopted - by deliberately ignoring the logical consequences of the adoption of those premises and treating the species cited by Lederer as the sole included species of the genus Carterocephalus. Next, he referred to the action by Snellen in 1867 (Vlinders van Nederland : 83) implying that he had given "palaemon (paniscus)" as the type-species of this genus. In fact, however, Snellen did not do mere than cite Papilio paniscus as an included species. Scudder's acceptance of what he (incorrectly) believed Snellen had done amounts to a selection of the above species as the type-species by Scudder himself. Further, in his concluding note at the foot of the page Scudder stated that "the name [Carterocephalus] must fall before Pamphila, virtually limited in 1832 to this group". Reference to Scudder's treatment of the name Pamphila (on page 236) shows that in the passage quoted above he there treated Papilio paniscus as the type-species of the genus Pamphila. If despite the action described above, it were to be argued that Scudder had failed to make an acceptable type-selection, the nominal species would still be Papilio paniscus through the explicit selection by myself in 1934 (Gen. Names hol. Butts 1 : 166). Long before then however that species had in practice been accepted as the type-species, but the type-selections made before 1934 were all technically defective owing to the fact that the authors making those selections (e.g. Barnes & McDunnough, 1916, Contrib. nat. Hist. Lepid. North America 3 (1) : 124) were not fully acquainted with the facts. As has already been explained above, it is currently considered subjectively on taxonomic grounds that the taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio paniscus Fabricius is conspecific with the taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio palaemon Pallas, 1771 (Reise Dutch verschieden. Prov. Russisch. Reichs 1 : 471). At the subspecies level, however, it is considered that paniscus Fabricius, the type-locality of which is Leipzig, is distinct from the nominate palaemon Pallas, the type-locality of which is Southern Russia, the taxon named by Fabricius being looked upon as the West European subspecies of the taxon named Papilio palaemon by Pallas. CARTEROCEPHALUS was included within the subfamily HESPERIIDAE: HETEROPTERINAE by Ackery et al., in Kristensen (1999). The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). See images at Butterflies of America where it is treated in the Heteropterinae. |
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