Genus Mimene Joicey & Talbot, 1917

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• Mimene Joicey, J.J. & Talbot, G. 1917. New Lepidoptera from Waigeu, Dutch New Guinea and Biak. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 216-229 [225] [replacement name for Mimas de Nicéville, 1895].

  Type species:

   Ismene miltias Kirsch, 1877 by indication.
• Mimas de Nicéville, L. 1895. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 9(4): 366-410 [391] [junior homonym of Mimas Hübner, [1819] and of Mimas Mergle, 1820].

  Type species:

   Ismene miltias Kirsch, 1877 by original designation.
• Biaka Joicey, J.J. & Talbot, G. 1917. New Lepidoptera from Waigeu, Dutch New Guinea and Biak. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 20: 216-229 [225].

  Type species:

   Biaka albidiscus Joicey & Talbot, 1917 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [430] (Mimeme Joicy & Talbot and Biaka Joicy & Talbot published simultaneously, treated as subjective synonyms)
• Hemming, F. 1964. Annotationes Lepidopterologicae. London : Hepburn & Sons Pts 3–5 pp. [73]-180 vii. [86] (as first reviser gave precedence to Mimeme Joicy & Talbot over Biaka Joicy & Talbot)

Distribution

States

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), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [430] (Mimene Joicey & Talbot, 1917 and Biaka Joicey & Talbot, 1917 were published simultaneously)

Hemming, F. 1964. Annotationes Lepidopterologicae. London : Hepburn & Sons Pts 3–5 pp. [73]-180 vii. [86] (as first reviser gave precedence to Mimene Joicey & Talbot, 1917 over Biaka Joicey & Talbot, 1917)

History of changes