Genus:
Sarangesa Moore, 1881 . Lepid. Ceylon 1 [(4)] : 176.
Status:
Available Name
Homonyms: 1
Higher classification:
HESPERIOIDEA : HESPERIIDAE : Subfamily unassigned
Type-species:
Sarangesa albicilia Moore , 1881 Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4) : 176, pl. 68, figs 5, 5a. .
Type-species designation:
by monotypy
Notes:
Hemming (1967) stated:-
When establishing this genus Moore designated as the type-species what he called "S. purendra" and included in it only the nominal species Sarangesa albicilia then named and described for the first time. This type-designation is however invalid, for at that time the name Saragnesa purendra was no more than a manuscript name, not being published with a description until June 1882 (Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1882 : 162). Thus, the only duly established nominal species placed in Sarangesa by Moore in 1881 was Sarangesa albicilia Moore which becomes therefore the type-species by monotypy.
The taxon represented by the nominal species Sarangesa albicilia Moore is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as a subspecies of the taxon represented by the older-established nominal species Sarangesa dasahara Moore, [1866] (Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (3) : 787).
Cowan (1970: 54) stated:-
"Saragnesa to read - Sarangesa".
Cowan (1970: 54) stated:-
"(14) to read - (4)", [genus journal part].
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