Species Cleora decisaria (Walker, 1866)

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• Boarmia decisaria Walker, F. 1866. Supplement 5. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 35: 1534-2040 [incl. Summary and Index to parts 31-35] [1589].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♀, Seram.
• Boarmia callicrossa Meyrick, E. 1889. On some Lepidoptera from New Guinea. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1889: 455-522 [498].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, ♀, New Guinea: Port Moresby.
• Geometra gilva Scott, A.W. 1893. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, with illustrations drawn from the life by his daughters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde. Edited and revised by Arthur Sidney Olliff and Helena Forde. Sydney : Australian Museum Vol. 2 Pp. 27-36, pls 19-21. [33, pl. 21].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♂, Australia: Ash Island.
• Boarmia psychastis Scott, A.W. 1893. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, with illustrations drawn from the life by his daughters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde. Edited and revised by Arthur Sidney Olliff and Helena Forde. Sydney : Australian Museum Vol. 2 Pp. 27-36, pls 19-21. [33, pl. 21] [invalid name; unavailable, published synonym. The second volume of A. W. Scott Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations (Scott 1890-1898) published by the Australian Museum has been attributed to A. W. Scott (it was published 7-10 years after his death (or to A. S. Olliff & Helena Forde). Olliff and Forde, on the cover and in the preface, state that their role was in editing and revising the manuscripts of A. W. Scott for publication. The plates were of the same origin as those published by Scott (1864) in the first volume of the book. In this volume, AW Scott wrote the text and his daughters, Harriette and Helena, prepared and colored the plates. The new names of the 1st volume have been invariably attributed to AW Scott. Olliff and Forde also stated that they had found it necessary to "substitute the nomenclature employed by recent writers" and that they were "entirely responsible for the nomenclature adopted". The illustrations had been prepared many years before with Scott's then novel names. These illustrations were not changed but Scott's names had become junior synonyms by 1890. Olliff and Forde edited the text to use the published names listing Scott's names (on the plates) as synonyms. All the new names in the publication, with one exception, are listed in the synonymy and must be attributed to Scott. The exception is Selidosema gilva (Scott, 1893) for which Olliff and Forde found no senior synonym and so Scott's manuscript name was used with his description. Olliff and Forde's statement that they were responsible for the nomenclature meant the synonymies not the names and descriptions. In this checklist all the names are attributed to Scott although their status is due to Olliff and Forde. Couchman (1962) makes this distinction in attributing 'cassythae' to Scott but its synonomy with erinus to Olliff and Forde. In the bibliography, as in Musgrave (1932) and Moulds (1977), the volume is attributed to Scott].

  Secondary source:

   Scott, A.W. 1864. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, drawn from the life by Harriet and Helena Scott. 1. London : John van Voorst [ii]+36 pp., pls 1-9.; Scott, A.W. 1890. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, with illustrations drawn from the life by his daughters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde. Edited and revised by Arthur Sidney Olliff and Helena Forde. Sydney : Australian Museum Vol. 2 Pp. 1-18, pls 10-12.; Scott, A.W. 1890. Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations by the Late Alexander Walker Scott; With Illustrations Drawn from Life by His Daughters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde. Edited and Revised by Arthur Sidney Olliff and Helena Forde. Sydney : Australian Museum Vol. 2(1) pp. 1-11.; Scott, A.W. 1891. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, with illustrations drawn from the life by his daughters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde. Edited and revised by Arthur Sidney Olliff and Helena Forde. Sydney : Australian Museum Vol. 2 Pp. 11-18, pls 13-15.; Scott, A.W. 1891. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, with illustrations drawn from the life by his daughters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde. Edited and revised by Arthur Sidney Olliff and Helena Forde. Sydney : Australian Museum Vol. 2 Pp. 19-26, pls 16-18.; Scott, A.W. 1893. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, with illustrations drawn from the life by his daughters, Harriet Morgan and Helena Forde. Edited and revised by Arthur Sidney Olliff and Helena Forde. Sydney : Australian Museum Vol. 2 Pp. 27-36, pls 19-21.; Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with biographical notes on authors and collectors. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales viii 380 pp.; Couchman, L.E. 1962. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 96: 73-81 pl. 1; Moulds, M.S. 1977. Bibliography of the Australian Butterflies. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea 1773–1973. Greenwich, N.S.W. : Australian Entomological Press 239 pp.
• Cleora nigristigma Prout, L.B. 1937. A revision of the decisaria group of Cleora. Novitates Zoologicae 40: 190-198 [197, pl. 13] [infrasubsp.].

  Type data:

   Holotype [Solomon Islands]: Choiseul.
• Cleora amphidoxa Prout, L.B. 1937. A revision of the decisaria group of Cleora. Novitates Zoologicae 40: 190-198 [196, pl. 13].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, North Borneo, [Sabah], Tenom.
• Cleora talaseensis Prout, L.B. 1937. A revision of the decisaria group of Cleora. Novitates Zoologicae 40: 190-198 [198] [originally as spp. of nigristigma. recognised as a ssp. of decisaria by Scoble (1999)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 6♂, 2♀, New Britain, Talesea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Scoble, M.J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World; a Catalogue. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing. [167]

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