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ORIENS Evans, 1932, Ident. Ind. Butts (ed. 2) : vi, 312, 399. Type-species through Section 

 (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Pamphila gola Moore, 1877, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1877 (3) : 594, pl- 58, fig. 9 <?• 



The name Oriens was introduced by Evans as a replacement for the name Nicevillea Evans, 

 1926, which is invalid under the Law of Homonymy. 



ORIMBA Herrich-Schaeffer, [1858], Samml. neuev. aussereurop. Schmett. : 55. Type-species 

 by monotypy : Orimba cataleuca Herrich-Schaeffer, [1858], ibid. : 55, figs 28, 29. 



Herrich-Schaeffer recognized only the above nominal species as belonging to this genus, but 

 cited another specific name (" areas (non Cram.")) as a synonym of the name of that species. 

 Under Article 68(c) of the Code the citation of a synonym in this way does not detract from 

 the status of the genus concerned as having its type-species fixed by monotypy. Scudder 

 (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 234) misread the original description of Orimba, 

 thinking that Herrich-Schaeffer had included areas as the name of a taxonomically valid 

 species and in consequence that Herrich-Schaeffer had included two — instead of only one — 

 nominal species in this genus. No harm resulted from this mistake, for Scudder thereupon 

 selected as the type-species the nominal species Orimba cataleuca, which, as already explained, 

 was already the type-species by monotypy. 



Herrich-Schaeffer attributed the name Orimba to Boisduval, by whom in fact it had been 

 published in 1854 (Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1854 : xxi). As there published, the name Orimba 

 was a complete nomen nudum and accordingly possesses no status in zoological nomenclature. 

 The taxon represented by the nominal species Orimba cataleuca Herrich-Schaeffer is cur- 

 rently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the 

 older-established nominal species Papilio epitus Cramer, [1780] (Uitl. Kapellen 3 (23) : 

 140, pl. 270, fig. C). 



ORINOMA Gray, 1846, Descr. Figs. lep. Ins. Nepal : 14. Type-species by monotypy : 

 Orinoma damaris Gray, 1846, ibid. : 14, pl. 7, figs 2, 2a (ups. & unders.). 



ORNEATES Godman & Salvin, [1894], Biol, centr .-amer . , Lep. Rhop. 2 : 345. Type-species 

 by original designation : Eudamus aegiochus Hewitson, 1876, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 

 (4) 18 : 350. 



ORNIPHOLIDOTOS Bethune-Baker, 1914, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1914 : 319. Type-species 

 by original designation : Pentila muhata Dewitz, 1886, Dtsch. ent. Z. 30 : 428, pl. 2, figs 

 6, 6a.* 



ORNITHOPTERA Boisduval, [1832], in d'Urville, Voy. " Astrolabe ", Faun. ent. 1 (Lep.) : 

 33. Type-species by selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 

 234) : Papilio priamus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 458. 



ORNITHOPTERUS Westwood, 1840, Introd. Class. Ins. 2 : 348 (an Unjustified Emendation 

 of Ornithoptera Boisduval, [1832]). 



It is clear that the spelling Ornithopterus was a deliberate variant by Westwood of the 

 spelling Ornithoptera previously used by Boisduval. Nominal genera bearing names which 

 are emendations of earlier names automatically take as their type-species the species which 

 is the type-species of the genus, the name of which is so amended, in this case, Papilio priamus 

 Linnaeus, the type-species of the genus Ornithoptera Boisduval, [1832]. Westwood did not 

 cite Papilio priamus (mentioning only what he called Ornithopterus amphrisius Horsfield) but 

 this does not affect the fact that, for the reason explained above, that species is automatically 

 the type-species of Ornithopterus Westwood. 



ORONTES Swainson, [1833], Zool. Illustr. (2) 3 (27) : pl. 125 (not a genus of butterflies). 



In the explanation to plate 125, Swainson gave short diagnoses for what he regarded as 

 four genera of butterflies. Of these the first (Leilus Swainson) is a genus of moths, the second 



* Since this entry was made, an application has been made to the Commission to set aside this type- 

 designation and instead to designate Pentila kirbyi Aurivillius, 1895, as the type-species, on the grounds 

 that (a) it is the species upon which Bethune-Baker based his description and (b) Pentila mahata 

 Dewitz is unrecognizable (see Stempffer, H., 1965, Bull. zool. Nom. 22: 57). 



