generic homonyms

Chris J. Durden drdn at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Jun 11 12:52:08 EDT 1999


At 10:50  10/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Homonomy of genera does not apply across Orders, anymore than homonomy of
>species applies across Families.
>
  Last time I looked at the rules generic homonyms were not permitted
within a kingdom. We would not want a moth with the same name as a beetle
or even a bird.
.......Chris Durden



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris J. Durden <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
>To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
>Date: June 9, 1999 10:33 PM
>Subject: Re: Aglais
>
>
>>  Oh no! This can't be. I thought Hemming had checked all the classical
>>names twice, and then Cowan had gone over the corrections and corrected
>them.
>>  You may be right, because they missed Klug's early publication (that
>>Paclt found) on the genus *Heliconius*, *Plebeius* and others. This makes
>>Cuvier's use of the family group name Plebei valid, and potentially obliges
>>a switch from Lycaenidae to Plebeidae, if we apply priority to family group
>>names. *Pieris* as a plant and a butterfly is currently ok, but *Aglais* as
>>a mollusc and a butterfly is not.
>>  What is the reference for mollusc *Aglais*? Let's clean this up and get
>>back in the field.
>>...........Chris Durden
>>
>>
>>At 06:21  9/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>>I just noticed that it appears to be a valid name for a mollusc genus.
>>>Seems like potential conflict, no? And I've only checked the "a"s. So, was
>>>this the kind of nomenclatural problems you all had in mind? How much
>would
>>>you like to bet that this is older than the lep name?  :-P
>>>
>>>Ol' Troublemaker,
>>>
>>>
>>>Doug Yanega       Dept. of Entomology           Entomology Research Museum
>>>Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
>>>phone: (909) 787-4315
>>>                http://insects.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
>>>  "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
>>>        is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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