Erionota acroleuca
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.3.9 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B63B9EAA-9C82-4258-BFD6-CBAD91BF68A4 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6103008 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4D365-FFA8-C412-FF25-5459FEACF817 |
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Erionota acroleuca |
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Erionota acroleuca (Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1881), stat. rest.
Telegonus acroleucus Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1881(Aug.): 143 (original description).
Hesperia hiraca Moore, 1881 (Sept.) View in CoL : 313 (original description).
Hesperia acroleuca: Wood-Mason & de Nicéville (1881 Dec.: 260) (synonyms, description).
Teligonus lara Swinhoe, 1890: 365 (original description).
Erionota acroleuca: Watson (1891: 107) (name list); Evans (1941: 159) (description, synonyms, subspecies); Evans (1949: 327) (description, synonyms, subspecies).
Erionota thrax acroleuca: Evans (1927: 440) (description, distribution, synonyms); Evans (1932: 373) (description, distribution, synonyms); Khatri (1993: 184) (name list).
Erionota hiraca View in CoL : de Jong & Treadaway (1992: 134) (description); de Jong & Treadaway (2007: 47) (nomenclature, distribution, variation); Ek-Amnuay et al. (2007: 16) (nomenclature); de Jong & Treadaway (2008: 10) (distribution); Mohanraj & Veenakumari (2011: 6) (checklist, distribution).
Remarks. The date of publication printed on the paper which originally described acroleuca is “August, 1881” (Wood- Mason & de Nicéville 1881 Aug.). While Bridges (1988) recorded the publication date of this name as October, 1881, and that of hiraca as September, 1881. According to this record, de Jong & Treadaway (1992) shifted the priority from acroleuca to hiraca , this treatment continued in their subsequent works (de Jong & Treadaway 2007, 2008), and was also followed by others (e.g. Devyatkin & Monastyrskii 1999; Kitamura 2003; Ek-Amnuay et al. 2007; Mohanraj & Veenakumari 2011). But: 1) in a paper issued on 21 December, 1881, Wood-Mason & de Nicéville described acroleucus again in a more detailed way under the name “ Hesperia acroleuca ”, they even gave a one-month priority of their name acroleucus (August) over Moore’s hiraca (September) . 2) the “letter code” assigned to acroleucus in Bridges (1988, 1994) is “a”, meaning “available valid species name”, and that to hiraca is “c” meaning “synonym”; the name hiraca is clearly recorded as “SS: acroleucus (Wood-Mason & de Nicéville), 1881” with a note “Close, September versus August”, indicating that hiraca is a junior synonym of acroleucus because of one month behind in publication. 3) The library of the Natural History Museum in London confirmed that the original paper of acroleucus was published in August 1881. Thus, according to Chapter 5 (Articles 21 and 22) of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Fourth Edition), the date of publication of the original paper introducing acroleuca should be accepted as [31 August] 1881. The nomenclatural act by de Jong & Treadaway (1992), which has caused a misapplication of hiraca and threatened the stability of acroleuca , should be corrected. Therefore, we restore acroleuca to a valid name, and submerge hiraca herein.
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Erionota acroleuca
Xue, Guo-Xi & Lo, Yik Fui Philip 2015 |
Erionota hiraca
Mohanraj 2011: 6 |
Jong 2008: 10 |
Jong 2007: 47 |
Ek-Amnuay 2007: 16 |
Jong 1992: 134 |
Erionota thrax acroleuca:
Khatri 1993: 184 |
Evans 1932: 373 |
Evans 1927: 440 |
Erionota acroleuca:
Evans 1949: 327 |
Evans 1941: 159 |
Watson 1891: 107 |
Teligonus lara
Swinhoe 1890: 365 |