another trash name

[Chris J. Durden]

For years I had used *l-album*, based on the statement in Langer, 1958 
(Nordens Dagsommerfugle. Copenhagen) that *vau-album* ad been found to be a 
nomen nudum. I switched to *vau-album* when Miller & Brown, 1981 (A 
Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. Lep. 
Soc. Mem. 2) chose to use *vau-album*. I assumed they had re-evaluated the 
original sources and had come to the conclusion that it was technically not 
a nomen nudum. They did not present details and do not mention *l-album*. 
Perhaps they followed Higgins, 1975 (The Classification of European 
Butterflies. London. Collins) who choses to use *vau-album*, without 
presenting reasoning. Kudrna, 1986 (Butterflies of Europe. V. 8. Wiesbaden, 
AULA) uses *l-album* without presenting the reason. This flip-flop history 
indicates the importance of examining original sources - becoming more and 
more difficult as our libraries move them into deep storage or dispose of 
them as no longer relevant to modern research.
............Chris Durden

At 11:28 AM 9/11/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
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>From: Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX <Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca>
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>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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