X-Nico

unusual facts about junior homonym



Bordered White

It is (under its original scientific name Phalaena piniaria) the type species of its genus Bupalus, as well as the junior objective synonyms Catograpta, Chleuastes and Phaophyga, and the preoccupied Bupala

Coenobita

:The junior homonym Coenobita Gistl, 1848 is now the moth genus Ectropis.

Eomeropidae

:Notiothauma Millidge, 1991 is an invalid junior homonym, and presently considered a junior synonym of the spider genus Lygarina of the family Linyphiidae.

Ethmia bipunctella

:The E. bipunctella invalidly described in 1936 by H. Rebel in L. Osthelder is actually E. distigmatella.

Goossensia

As invalidly described by Ragonot in 1891, it refers to the snout moth genus Macna.

Latreillia

A genus of flies was also given the same name and, as a junior homonym, was renamed Belvosia.

Phlaeothripidae

The concealer moth genus Tubulifera, invalidly described by Spuler in 1910, is now included in Pseudatemelia.

Theridion

Theridion braueri Simon, 1898 probably belongs into a different genus; however, Robertia the new name proposed by Saaristo (2006) is preoccupied by the mammal-like reptile Robertia.


see also

Calceolaria

:For the junior homonym Calceolaria Heist. ex Fabr., see Cypripedium.

Lacronia

This genus was at first called Luederwaldtia Mello-Leitão, 1923, but the name was already preoccupied, being a junior homonym of Luederwaldtia Schmidt, 1922 (Hemiptera).

Pinicola

Pinicola Vieillot, 1808 (Aves, Fringillidae) makes the name Pinicola Brébisson, 1818 a junior homonym and therefore unavailable for a genus of Xyelidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera).