tyche in North America ?

[Zdravko Kolev]

"Jaakko Kullberg" <jaakko.kullberg at helsinki.fi> wrote in message news:<9svu94$njc$1 at oravannahka.helsinki.fi>...
> Hi there!
> the name sylvanus is really a homonym, but it was conserved by ICZN. This
> was in my mind stupid as faunus has been used for years in Russia for the
> species.
> See: http://www.sciref.org/netf/netf1-3/main1-3f.htm
> 495. Devyatkin, A.L. (1999) Comment on the proposed conservation of the
> specific name of Papilio sylvanus Esper, [1777] (currently Ochlodes venata
> or Augiades sylvanus; Insecta, Lepidoptera) [Case 3046]. Bulletin of
> Zoological Nomenclature 56(1): 63-65.
>   a.. 495-1. A series of commentsby various authors regarding Case 3046 are
> presented. This case proposes the conservation of Papilio sylvanus Esper
> [1777] over the synonyms Ochlodes venata (Bremer & Grey, 1853) or Augiades
> sylvanus. The ICZN has not made a ruling on this case.
> And then:
> ICZN, 2000: Opinion 1944: Papilio sylvanus Esper, 1777 (currently known as
> Ochlodes sylvanus or O. venatus faunus; Lepidoptera): specific name
> conserved. - Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 57(1): 56-57.
> 
> jaska


Hi Jaska,

Thanks for the information. However, I think that the decision of ICZN
to conserve the name sylvanus is a well-chosen one. As convenient and
widely known as the name faunus is, it would not make a species name
after all, as another name, hyrcana (Christoph, 1893), precedes it.
And who in Europe has ever heard of this name?!! At least sylvanus is
vaguely familiar, though it has not been in use for decades.

Many thanks to Andy Warren for pointing this out. His posting however
got "lost" in a separate thread, so I have pasted it below:

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Regarding Ochlodes venatus and "faunus":
The most recent review of the genus Ochlodes is also 
the only one to illustrate all species from all 
continents:

Hideyuki Chiba & Hiroshi Tsukiyama.  1996.  
"A review of the genus Ochlodes Scudder, 1872, with 
special reference to the Eurasian species (Lepidoptera: 
Hesperiidae)."  Butterflies.  No. 14:3-16 [This is the 
color journal published by The Butterfly Society of 
Japan].
This paper gives a synonymic list for the genus.  The 
parts of interest to this discussion are as follows:

Ochlodes venata (Bremer & Gray, 1853)Hesperia
  a. ssp. venata (Bremer & Gray, 1853)
     = Pamphila selas Mabille, 1878
     = Pamphila herculea Butler, 1881
     = Ochlodes tochrana Heyne, 1895
     = Augiades sylvanus form amurensis Mabille, 1906
     = Augiades chosensis Matsumura, 1929
  b. ssp. majuscula (Elwes & Edwards, 1897)

Ochlodes hyrcana (Cristolph, 1893) Hesperia
  a. ssp. faunus (Turati, 1905)Augiades
       Papilio sylvanus Esper, 1775 (Homonym)
     = Papilio melicerta Borkhausen, 1788
     = Ochlodes alexandra Hemming, 1934
     = Ochlodes esperiverity Hemming, 1934
  b. ssp. hyrcana (Cristolph, 1893) Hesperia

There is a long discussion supporting these synonymies, 
but it is in Japanese and I can't summarize it for 
you.  The description of a new species, Ochlodes 
hasegawai, however, is in English.  
There are a lot of other great papers that come out in 
this journal so check it out whenever you get a 
chance.  

Andy Warren
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Zdravko Kolev

 
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