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The Generic Names of

Moths of the World

Dedicated to the memory of our wives ,

Mary Evelyn Nye

and

Margaret Florence Fletcher,

whose unfailing encouragement

contributed so much to the completion

of this six volume series.

The Generic Names of

Moths of the World

Volume 6

Microlepidoptera

By I. W. B. Nye and D. S. Fletcher

Natural History Museum , London, U.K.

Natural History Museum Publications

London 1991

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

The Generic names of moths of the world.

Vol. 6: Microlepidoptera.

I. Nye, I. W. B. II. Fletcher, D. S.

(David Stephen), 1919-

595.781

ISBN 0565009915

Typeset by Electronic Village Ltd, Richmond, Surrey

Printed by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire

Contents

Page

PREFACE vi

SYNOPSIS ix

INTRODUCTION ix

FORM OF ENTRIES ix

REFERENCES ix

DATES ix

UNAVAILABLE NAMES ix

HOMONYMY x

MISIDENTIFIED TYPE-SPECIES x

ALPHABETICAL CATALOGUE OF FAMILY-GROUP NAMES x

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xxix

ALPHABETICAL CATALOGUE OF GENUS-GROUP NAMES 1

SYMBOLS USED 1

ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR FAMILY-GROUP NAMES .1

CATALOGUE 1

INDEX TO SPECIES-GROUP NAMES 328

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I. W. B. NYE & D. S. FLETCHER

Preface

In the whole of the Animal Kingdom over 300 000 genus-group names have been proposed and of these nearly

10% have been applied to moths and butterflies. The 25 000 genus-group names of moths have now been catalogued

in the volumes cited below. An index and a supplement of additions and amendments to these six volumes of

the generic names of the moths and also to “The Generic Names of the Butterflies and their Type-species” by

Hemming, F., 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.) Suppl. 9: 509 pp., is in preparation.

The Generic Names of Moths of the World

VOLUME 1 by I.W.B. Nye (published 11th December 1975)

Superfamily NOCTUOIDEA (part) AGARISTIDAE

GENERIC NAMES OF THE MOTHS OF THE WORLD

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I. W. B. NYE & D. S. FLETCHER

viii

GENERIC NAMES OF THE MOTHS OF THE WORLD

IX

Synopsis

The 5750 genus-group names of the Microlepidoptera are listed alphabetically with their type-species and original

bibliographic references. The means of Fixation of each type-species is given together with the relevant reference.

A list of 390 available family-group names and their original bibliographic references is included.

Introduction

The first and only comprehensive catalogue of genus-group names of the Microlepidoptera was compiled by

T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, Imperial Entomologist to the Government of India, and was published in 1929 as “A

List of the Generic Names used for Microlepidoptera” in the Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India

(Entomological Series) 11: pages i-ix, 1-244. This work, long since out of print, covered the 171 years from

1758 to 1929 and contained approximately 3300 genus-group names. Over the past 60 years to the end of 1988

this figure has increased to 5750 available genus-group names included in this present catalogue.

The co-author of the present catalogue, D.S. Fletcher, is not related to T.B. Fletcher.

The aim of this catalogue is closely similar to that defined in the first volume of Generic Names of Moths

of the World and followed in volumes 2, 3 and 4. Following a change of editor the scope and style in volume

5 and in the present volume have been altered in the following respects:

(a) subjective synonymy of genus-group names has been excluded except in some cases of junior homonyms

that have no objective replacement names;

(b) objective replacement names have not been established for junior homonyms having no replacement names;

(c) type-locality and type-specimen information have been excluded;

(d) senior subjective synonyms of type-species have not been cited;

(e) entries have been treated in alphabetical order and cross-referenced to objective synonyms and incorrect

spellings.

The present volume contains the genus-group names of the families cited in the Preface under volume 6, from

1758 up to and including all the relevant names contained in the Zoological Record volume 125 (section 13D,

Lepidoptera) published in December 1989.

Each nomenclaturally available genus-group name has been objectively defined by linking it with its valid type-

species designation determined according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Edition 3) publish-

ed in 1985. Invalid and incorrect designations of type-species that antedate the valid designation are listed and

the reasons for their rejection are given.

Form of Entries

REFERENCES

Titles of journals have been abbreviated as in the World List of Scientific Periodicals (Edition 4), 1963-1965,

and supplements. If the cited journal has not been included in the World List, abbreviations in the style of that

work have been used. Nouns always start with a capital letter and adjectives usually start with a small letter.

Abbreviations are followed by a full stop, but contractions are not.

Titles of books and and other non-serial works have also been abbreviated in the style of the World List, using

the ‘‘Select List of Abbreviations” published in volume 3 of that work.

The full titles of journals may be found in the World List or in the List of Serial Publications in the British

Museum (Natural History) Library (Edition 3), 1980. Most of the titles of books and of other non-serial works

are in the Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History).

Throughout this catalogue the term Commission refers to the International Commission on Zoological

Nomenclature and the term Code refers to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Edition 3), 1985.

DATES

Following Recommendation 22A of the Code, dates of publication have been cited in square brackets if they

have been determined from external evidence and in parentheses if determined from evidence in the volume itself.

These dates have usually been followed by those printed on the title-page to assist in finding the work in library

catalogues.

Dates of publication given in Sherbom’s Index Animalium and in the Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Maps

and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) have been adopted, except where bibliographical research

has shown that changes should be made.

UNAVAILABLE NAMES

Unavailable names (names that are not nomenclaturally available under the rules of the Code) are preceded by

a double dagger (t) and reasons for their rejection are given.

Names recorded in Neave, Nomenclator zoologicus as “(pro A-us Author, date)” usually lack positive indica-

tion as to whether the names are misspellings without nomenclatural availability or whether they are emenda-

tions with nomenclatural availability. All such entries have been checked and the correct status given.

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Homonymy

Names that have been proposed expressly to replace junior homonyms, and junior objective synonyms that have

been used for the same purpose, are referred to in this catalogue as objective replacement names. Junior subjec-

tive synonyms used to replace preoccupied senior synonyms are referred to as subjective replacement names.

Generic names that are junior homonyms have been linked with their objective synonyms. Several generic

homonyms have no objective synonyms but it has been possible to place some of these as subjective synonyms

of other generic names by finding, in each case, a genus whose type-species is considered by authors to be con-

generic with that of the homonymous genus. There remain some for which no replacement name has been found

and for these, further taxonomic research is required before replacement names are proposed.

Misidentified Type-species

Under the Code (Edn 3) Article 70 it is to be assumed that an author has correctly identified the nominal species

that he (1) referred to a new genus when he established it, or (2) designated as type-species of a new or established

genus.

In this catalogue there are several genera having type-species now known to be based on misidentified specimens.

Under Article 70 such cases should be referred to the Commission to designate whichever species would promote

nomenclatural stability. The authors of this catalogue have provisionally chosen type-species that they consider

will fulfil this objective.

Alphabetical Catalogue of Family-Group Names

The following alphabetical list of 390 available family-group names is probably far from complete. It has been

compiled from works examined while preparing the genus-group name catalogue with additional family-group

names added from a card index in the Natural History Museum, London, maintained by our colleague Dr J.D.

Bradley and the late Mr N.D. Riley.

The present catalogue of Generic Names of Moths of the World has been abbreviated to G.N.M. W. 6. Flet-

cher 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India (Ent.) 11: 1-244, in “A List of the Generic Names used for Microlepidoptera”,

placed the generic names in families and his work has been used as the basis for the present catalogue. In many

cases, however, the current placement differs from that of Fletcher and this has been noted below. The authority

for the transfer has usually been cited under the genus-group name entries of G.N.M. W. 6.

No attempt has been made to include bibliographic information on the synonymy of the family-group names.

Family-group names take the authorship and date of their first establishment at any level. They may then be

used at any other level with changed family-group suffix but retain the original authorship and date:

e.g. Tortricoidea Latreille, [1803], for the superfamiy;

Tortricidae Latreille, [1803], for the family;

Tortricinae Latreille, [1803], for the subfamily;

Tortricini Latreille, [1803], for the tribe;

Tortricina Latreille, [1803], for the subtribe.

In the following list of family-group names the original spelling either of the stem of the name of the type-

genus or of the family-group suffix of each name has been standardized for the main alphabetic margin entry.

When this has been done the original spelling has been included after the family-group name reference.

GENERIC NAMES OF THE MOTHS OF THE WORLD

xi

ACANTHOPSYCHINAE Tutt, 1900, Nat. Hist. Br. Lepid.

2: 373, 375.

Type-genus: Acanthopsyche Heylaerts, 1881, not included

in Fletcher 1929; included in G.N.M. W. 6 within the

Psychidae.

ACANTHOPTEROCTETIDAE Davis, 1978, Smithson.

Contr. Zool. 251: 95.

Type-genus: Acanthopteroctetes Braun, 1921 , included in

Fletcher 1929 within the Eriocraniidae.

Used in G.N.M. IF. 6 as a valid family name.