Erionota acroleuca

Xue, Guo-Xi & Lo, Yik Fui Philip, 2015, A taxonomic note on Erionota acroleuca (Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1881) stat. rest. (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), Zootaxa 3926 (3), pp. 445-447 : 445

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.3.9

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B63B9EAA-9C82-4258-BFD6-CBAD91BF68A4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6103008

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4D365-FFA8-C412-FF25-5459FEACF817

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Plazi

scientific name

Erionota acroleuca
status

 

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Erionota

Loc

Erionota acroleuca

Xue, Guo-Xi & Lo, Yik Fui Philip 2015
2015
Loc

Erionota hiraca

Mohanraj 2011: 6
Jong 2008: 10
Jong 2007: 47
Ek-Amnuay 2007: 16
Jong 1992: 134
1992
Loc

Erionota thrax acroleuca:

Khatri 1993: 184
Evans 1932: 373
Evans 1927: 440
1927
Loc

Erionota acroleuca:

Evans 1949: 327
Evans 1941: 159
Watson 1891: 107
1891
Loc

Teligonus lara

Swinhoe 1890: 365
1890
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