Genus:
Cepora Billberg, 1820 . Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. : 76.
Status:
Available Name
Homonyms: 1
Higher classification:
PAPILIONOIDEA : PIERIDAE : PIERINAE : Tribe unassigned
Type-species:
Papilio coronis Cramer , 1775 Uitl. Kapellen 1 (4) : 69, pl. 44, figs B, C. .
Type-species designation:
by subsequent designation by, Scudder , 1875 Proc. amer. acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 138.
Notes:
Hemming (1967) stated:-
The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio coronis Cramer is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the nominal species Papilio nerissa Fabricius, 1775 (Syst. Ent. : 471). As these names were both published in the year 1775 and there was no sure evidence as to which was the first to be published, there has always been some doubt as to which of these names should be used in preference to the other. For the most part however authors have used the specific name nerissa Fabricius rather than the name coronis Cramer. The underlying question here involved affected a considerable number of pairs of names, not only names published by Fabricius and Cramer in 1775 but also by other authors published in that year, notably von Rottemburg and Denis & Schiffermüller. This question was considered in a preliminary way in 1948 by the Commission which directed that a detailed investigation should be carried out and a report submitted to it for consideration. The report so called for was considered by the Commission in 1957. The decision then taken by the Commission was later embodied in the Commission's Opinion 516 (1958, Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 19 : 1-44). In that Opinion the Commission ruled, inter alia, that the Systema Entomologiae of Fabricius is to be treated as having priority over those Parts of Cramer's Uitl. Kapellen published in 1775. Under this ruling the specific name nerissa Fabricius, 1775, published in the combination Papilio nerissa, takes precedence over the name coronis Cramer, [1775], published in the combination Papilio coronis. Thus, on the subjective taxonomic view indicated above, the name nerissa Fabricius, 1775, is the oldest available specific name subjectively applicable to the type-species of the present genus.
CEPORA was included within the subfamily PIERIDAE: PIERINAE by Ackery et al., in Kristensen (1999).
Junior name(s):
Huphina Moore, 1881: 136.
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