Species Cruria donowani (Boisduval, 1832)

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• Agarista donowani Boisduval, J.A.D. 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1: Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu pp.267. [176-177].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (Boisduval (1832: 177) stated: "Muséum du comte Dejean". The collection of Dejean was sold in parts (Bousquet & Bouchard (2013)) and the syntypes of Agarista donowani Boisduval, 1832 are not necessarily at the MNHP.), Nouvelle-Hollande [= Australia].
• Agarista darwiniensis Butler, A.G. 1884. On new species of Lepidoptera recently added to the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 14: 403-407 [406].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2 ♀ (The original description states "♂,♀", but according to a note in ANIC both syntype specimens are ♀.), [Australia, NT] Port Darwin (Buckland).
• Cruria xanthosoma Jordan, K. 1912. Agaristidae. Pp. 1-30, pls 1-4 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Macrolepidoptera of the Indo-Australian Fauna. 11. Noctuiform Phalaenae. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag ii+488 pp, 56 pls. [14].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Northern Province of Southern Australia, west of the Gulf of Carpentaria [=Australia, NT].
• Cruria timorica Jordan, K. 1912. Agaristidae. Pp. 1-30, pls 1-4 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Macrolepidoptera of the Indo-Australian Fauna. 11. Noctuiform Phalaenae. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag ii+488 pp, 56 pls. [14].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Dili, Portuguese Timor [= East Timor].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Agarista donovanii Boisduval, 1832 [subsequent misspelling]. —
  Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1853. Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropaischer schmetterlinge. 1850-1858. Regensburg : Manz pls 1-16. [pl. 6, fig. 28]
• Agarista donovani Boisduval, 1832 [original misspelling].
• Cruria darviniensis (Butler, 1884) [subsequent misspelling]. —
  Hampson, G.F. 1901. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 xix 690 pp., 1 folded page. [547]

Introduction

From Edwards (in Nielsen et al. 1996): Boisduval (1832) used the multiple original spellings 'donowani' in the text and 'donovani' in the Index. With the name 'donowani', Boisduval provided the explanation in French 'of Donowan'. The Code Art. 32 (b)(i) states that the action of the first reviser is to be followed in the case of multiple original spellings. The first reviser (that is the first author to mention both spellings) in this case was Jordan (1912) who chose 'donowani'. However, Art. 32 (b)(i) is subject to Art. 32 (c)(ii) which states that if there is evidence in the publication itself of an inadvertent error a name may be corrected. Nye (1975: 142) used the name 'donovani' on the assumption that it was named after Edward Donovan. While this is probable, even obvious, there is in the original publication no proof of it and hence the action of Jordan (1912) as first reviser in choosing 'donowani' is followed here. Boisduval in referring to Donovan's publications consistently used the abbreviation "Donow."

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Noctuidae. pp. 291-333 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [322]

Jordan, K. 1912. Agaristidae. Pp. 1-30, pls 1-4 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Macrolepidoptera of the Indo-Australian Fauna. 11. Noctuiform Phalaenae. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag ii+488 pp, 56 pls.

Nye, I.W.B. 1975. Noctuoidea (part): Noctuidae, Agaristidae, and Nolidae. In, Nye, I.W.B. (ed.). The Generic Names of Moths of the World. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 568 pp. frontispiece.

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