GENERIC NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 269 



by Hiibner and was awaiting publication at the time of his death in 1826. Thus, although 

 this volume was not actually published until several years later, the new names in it are 

 attributable to Hiibner and not to Geyer, whose only role in this matter was seeing through 

 the press the text which Hiibner had written. 



Hiibner placed two nominal species in this genus and Scudder was accordingly in error 

 when he stated that Lychnuchus olenus was the type-species by monotypy. Scudder's 

 statement that this species was the type-species was perfectly definite and thus ranks under 

 Article 69(a) (iii) of the Code as a valid type-selection. 



LYCHNUCUS Scudder, 1875, Pvoc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 210 (an Incorrect 

 Subsequent Spelling of Lychnuchus Hiibner, [1827-1831]). 



LYCIA Sodovskii, 1837, Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 1837 (6) : 81. Type-species through 

 Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Papilio phlaeas Linnaeus, 1761, Faun. svec. 

 (ed. 2) : 285. 



Sodovskii introduced the name Lycia as a replacement for the name Lycaena Fabricius, 

 1807, to which he apparently took exception on linguistic grounds. This action was entirely 

 uncalled-for and the name Lycia Sodovskii is accordingly invalid as a junior objective 

 synonym of Lycaena Fabricius. Even if it had not been invalid on this account, the name 

 Lycia Sodovskii would still have been invalid, for it is a junior homonym of Lycia Hiibner, 

 [1825] (Verz. bekannt. Schmelt. (20) : 310) 



LYCOREA Doubleday, [1847], Gen. (Hum. Lep. (1) : 105. Type-species by selection by 

 S< udder (1875, Proc. atner. Acad. ArtsSci., Boston 10 : 210) : Lycorea atergatis Doubleday 



[1847], ibid. (1) : pi. 16, fig. 1 [In the text (: 106) published one month after plate 16 this 

 species was listed without description]. 



Formerly, when the Code contained no rules governing honionymy between two generic 

 names differing from one another only slightly in spelling, it was considered that the name 

 Lycorea Doubleday was invalid, as being a junior homonym of Lycoria Meigen, 1800 (Nouv 

 Class. Mouches deux Ailes : 17). In 1953 however this matter was clarified by the decision 

 of the Copenhagen Congress — now embodied in Article 56(a) — that a difference in spelling 

 of a single letter is to be accepted as sufficient to prevent any two generic names from being 

 treated as homonyms of one another. Under this provision the name Lycorea Doubleday 

 is an available name and, as the oldest available name for this genus, is its valid name. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Lycorea atergatis is currently treated sub- 

 jectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the older-established 

 nominal species Heliconia cleobaea Godart, [1819] (Ency. milk. 9 (Ins.) (1) : 222). 



LYCORELLA Hemming, 1933, Entomologist 66 : 222. Type-species through Section (i) 

 (replacement names) of Article 67 : Lycorea atergatis Doubleday, [1847], Gen. diurn. Lep. 

 (1) : pi. 16, fig. 1. 



The name Lycorella was introduced as a replacement for Lycorea Doubleday, ^1847], at a 

 time when it was considered that that name was invalid as a junior homonym of Lycoria 

 Meigen, 1800. As has been explained above in the note on that name the subsequently 

 adopted provision in the Code relating to generic honionymy has the effect of making the 

 names Lycorea and Lycoria independent of one another under the Law of Honionymy. The 

 name Lycorea Doubleday is thus an available name ; its replacement name Lycorrella 

 Hemming is accordingly invalid as a junior objective synonym of that name. 



When the replacement genus Lycorella was established, its type-species was stated to be 

 Heliconia cleobaea, Godart, [1819], this species, as explained in the note on Lycorea Doubleday 

 being currently treated subjectively as representing the same taxon as that represented by 

 the later-established nominal species Lycorea atergatis Doubleday. This course was taken in 

 the absence of any express provision in the Code, because it was thought convenient that the 

 replacement genus Lycorella should have as its type-species the oldest nominal species 

 identified with the type-species of the genus Lycorea Doubleday, then being replaced, rather 

 than a nominal species bearing a name of later date long sunk as a junior subjective synonym. 



