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Abraxas Leach 1815

  • 1. Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. & Department of Zoology, Ballygunge Science College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. & kailash 611 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9076 - 5442

Description

Genus Abraxas Leach, [1815]

Abraxas Leach, [1815] 1830, In Brewster, Edinburgh Ency., 9: 134. Type species: Phalaena grossulariata Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymies (for more details on the nomenclature see Scoble 1999 and Skou & Sihvonen 2015): Spilota Hübner, [1806], Tent. Det. Lep., (2): 1–2. (name used in suprageneric sense); Spilota Hübner, 1818, Zuträge Samml. exot. Schmett., 1: 32. (name used in suprageneric sense); Spilota Hübner, 1822, Syst.-alph. Verz.: 39–51; Zerene Treitschke, 1825, In Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur., 5 (2): 444; Calospilos Hübner, [1825] 1816, Verz. bek. Schmett., (20): 305; Callispilus Agassiz, 1847, Nom. zool.: 60–61; Zirene Unger, 1856, Arch. Ver. Freunde Naturg. Mecklenb. 10: 61 (Emendation of Zerene, Treitschke); Potera Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., (4): 852; Omophyseta Warren, 1894, Novit. zool., 1 (2): 414; Silabraxas Swinhoe, 1900, Cat. Het. Mus. Oxford, (2): 305; Chooreechillum Lucas, 1901, Proc. R. Soc. Qd., 16: 73; Dextridens Wehrli, 1934, Ent. Zs., 48 (18): 140; Isostictia Wehrli, 1934, Ent. Zs., 48 (18): 139; Diceratodesia Wehrli, 1935, Ent. Rdsch., 52: 117; Mesohypoleuca Wehrli, 1935, Int. Ent., 29: 1; Priononyx Wehrli, 1935, Ent. Rdsch.: 116; Rhabdotaedoeagus Wehrli, 1935, Ent. Rdsch., 52: 101; Spinuncus Wehrli, 1935, Ent. Zs., 48 (21): 162; Trimeresia Wehrli, 1935, Ent. Rdsch., 52: 162; Empriononyx Wehrli, 1936, Mitt. Münch., 26: 37 (Unnecessary replacement name for Priononyx, Wehrli).

Notes

Published as part of Gayen, Subrata & Chandra, Kailash, 2023, A new distributional range of Abraxas antipusilla Inoue, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Eastern Himalaya, India, pp. 187-194 in Zootaxa 5228 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7532309

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Geometridae
Genus
Abraxas
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Leach
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Abraxas Leach, 1815 sec. Gayen & Chandra, 2023

References

  • Skou, P. & Sihvonen, P. (2015) Ennominae I. In: Hausmann, A. (Ed.), The Geometridae Moths of Europe. Vol. 5. Brill, Leiden, pp. 1 - 657. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004265738
  • Hubner, J. (1818) Zutrage zur Sammlung exotischer Schmettlinge. Available from: https: // archive. org / details / zutrgezursamml 01 hb / page / n 3 / mode / 1 up? view = theater (accessed 31 December 2019)
  • Hubner, J. (1822) Systematisch-alphabetisches Verzeichniss aller bisher bey den Furbildungen zur Sammlung europaischer Schmetterlinge: angegebenen Gattungsbenennungen: mit Vormerkung auch augsburgischer Gattungen, Augsburg. Available from: https: // archive. org / details / systematischalph 00 hb / page / n 3 / mode / 2 up (accessed 14 November 2022) https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 48605
  • Treitschke, F. (1825) Die Schmetterlinge von Europa. Vol. 5. Fleischer, Leipzig, 448 pp.
  • Agassiz, L. (1847) Nomina Systematica Generum Lepidopterorum, tam viventium quam fossolium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum disposita, adjectis auctoribus, libris in quibus reperiuntur anno editionis, etymologia et familiis as quas pertinent. Available from: https: // archive. org / details / nomenclatorzoolo 14 agas / page / n 874 / mode / 1 up? view = theater (accessed 14 November 2022) https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 15763
  • Moore, F. (1878) A list of the Lepidopterous Insects collected by Mr. Ossian Limborg in Upper Tenasserim, with Descriptions of new Species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 4, 821 - 858. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1878. tb 08027. x
  • Warren, W. (1894) New genera and species of Geometridae. Novitates zoologicae, 1 (2), 366 - 534. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 24566
  • Swinhoe, C. (1900) Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford Museum. Noctuina, Geometrina and Pyralidina. Vol. 2. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 596 pp.
  • Lucas, T. P. (1901) Queensland Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 16, 73 - 95. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 26971
  • Wehrli, E. (1934) Revision einiger subgenerischer Gruppen der Gattung Abraxas. Entomologische Zeitschrift, 48, 138 - 141.
  • Wehrli, E. (1936) Einige neue Arten und Rassen aus den Ausbeuten des Herrn Ernst Pfeiffer. Munchner Entomologische Gesellschaft, 26, 33 - 37.