Genus Notocrypta de Nicéville, 1889

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• Notocrypta de Nicéville, L. 1889. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indian region, with a revision of the genus Plesioneura of Felder and of authors. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 4(3): 187-194 [188] [replacement name for Plesioneura C. & R. Felder, 1862].

  Type species:

   Plesioneura curvifascia C. & R. Felder, 1862 by indication.
• Plesioneura Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1862. Observationes de Lepidopteris nonnullis Chinae centralis et Japoniae. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift 6(1): 22-32 pls 1 3 [29] [de Nicéville, L. 1889. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indian region, with a revision of the genus Plesioneura of Felder and of authors. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 4(3): 187–194 (188) considered Plesioneura C. & R. Felder, 1862 to be a junior homonym of Plesionevra Macquart, 1855 (Diptera) and consequently introduced the new replacement name Notocrypta de Nicéville, 1889, but International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1985. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Third Edition, adopted by the XX General Assembly of the International Union of Biological Sciences. London : International trust for Zoological Nomenclature 338 pp. Art. 56(b) stated that two genus-group names are not homonyms if there is only a one-letter difference between them; Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. as the spelling of Plesionevra Macquart, 1855 (Diptera) has not been emended, and in order to maintain stability in the use of these names, we here follow de Nicéville's decision pending a case to be made to the ICZN on the relative priority of Plesioneura C. & R. Felder, 1862 and Notocrypta de Nicéville, 1889; see Macquart, M. 1855. Nouvelles observations sur les Diptères d'Europe de la tribu des Tachinaires (Fin) (1). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 3: 180 (180) for the original description of Plesionevra Macquart, 1855 (Diptera) and Lindner, E. 1975. Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region. Lfg 309. Stuttgart : E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nagele u. Obermiller) (1368) for the most recent reference sighted to Plesionevra Macquart, 1855 (Diptera)].

  Type species:

   Plesioneura curvifascia C. & R. Felder, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Butler, A.G. 1870. The genera of Hesperidae in the collection of the British Museum. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 7: 55-58 92-99 [95].

Distribution

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Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 25(2–6): 9-79 pl. 1 [20] (generic revision, in German)

Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [315]

Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [167] (redescription)

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