another trash name - correction

[Guy Van de Poel & A. Kalus]

It's so easy to make mistakes

below, it should have read :
_Stichel, 1908 in Seitz, 1906-09_

Guy.


> Koçak, 1981 merely repeated what _Stichel in Seitz, 1909-09_,
> Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (1)
> 1. Die Palaearktischen Tagfalter.
> p. 206 :
> "Polygonia l-album (= vau-album Schiff., nom. nud.)"
> had already published.
> This has apparently been neglected/forgotten for over 70 years.
> So, you're not the only ones ...
>
> Guy.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX <Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca>
> To: 'lepsl' <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>; 'altabugs'
> <albertabugs at majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca>
> Sent: maandag 10 september 2001 19:24
> Subject: another trash name
>
>
> > Just remembered this gem. Nymphalis vau-album is another violator of the
> > code. I remember Joe Belicek mentioning to me some 12 or so years ago
that
> > vau-album is a nomen nudum (naked name). Sadly I forgot to follow up on
> that
> > advice so we ended up using it in Alberta Butterflies. But it is now
> widely
> > known that we need to use the species name l-album Esper (1780). This
was
> > pointed out Kocak in Priamus twenty years ago but it has taken a while
for
> > us to wake up and smell the coffee. The genus name is also very suspect
> from
> > a taxonomic view even tho it is OK from a nomenclature perspective. A
> truely
> > excellent piece of work by Nylin et al 2001 presents sufficient reasons
to
> > cause me to place it in the genus Polygonia. People who like very
narrowly
> > defined monotyypic genera will want to place it in Roddia. Nymphalis
does
> > not appear to be defensible any longer.
> >
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> > Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
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