Nymphalis l-album watsoni (G. Hall, 1924)
(Compton Tortoiseshell)

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Synonymy

(From: A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada, Jonathan P. Pelham)

Genus Nymphalis Kluk, 1780

Zwierz. Hist. Nat. Pocz. Gospod. 4: 86-89, no. 148. Type-species: Papilio polychloros Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 477, no. 113, by designation of Hemming (1933), Entomol. 66(845): 223. I.C.Z.N. Opinion 278 placed this name on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology as name no. 702.

      =    ‡Scudderia Grote, 1873

Can. Entomol. 5(8): 144. Type-species: Papilio antiopa Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 476-477, no. 112, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Scudderia Stål, 1873, Öfvers. K. VetenskAkad. Förh. 30: 41.

=    Euvanessa Scudder, 1889

Butts. E. U. S. & Can. 1(3): 387. Type-species: Papilio antiopa Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 476-477, no. 112, as a replacement name. Proposed to replace Scudderia Grote, 1873, preoccupied (Code Articles 60.3, 67.8).

=    Roddia Korshunov, 1995

In: Korshunov & Gorbunov, Butts. Asiatic Russia: 81-82. Type-species: Papilio l-album Esper, 1781, Die Schmett. 1(2)(2): pl. 62 (cont. 12), figs. 3a, 3b; (3): 69-71, by original designation. Wahlberg and Nylin (2003), Cladistics 19(3): 221-222, and Wahlberg et al. (2005), Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 86(2): 235, 238, 250, determined this synonymy.

      =    ‡Antiopana Korb, 2005

Cat. Butts. ex USSR: 72. Type-species: Papilio antiopa Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation. A junior objective synonym of Euvanessa

Nymphalis l-album (Esper, 1781)

Die Schmett. 1(2)(2): pl. 62 (Cont. 12), figs. 3a ♂ D&V, 3b ♀ D&V; (3): 69-71; cited Papilio vau album [Schiffermüller] (1775), Ankündung eines syst. Werkes Schmett. Wiener Gegend: 176, no. 7.

Original Combination: P[apilio]. Nymph[alis]. Phal[erata]. L album

Type Locality: “Ungarn und Oesterreich”; fig. 3 is from “der Gegend von Wien” [Vienna, Austria]

Types: Location of type(s) not known, probably lost.

                   =    ‡vaualbum ([Schiffermüller], 1775) (emended)

Ankündung eines syst. Werkes Schmett. Wiener Gegend: 176, no. 7.

Original Combination: P[apilio]. Vau album

Type Locality: “Wienergegend” implied from the title of the work. [Vienna, Austria]

Types: Type(s) probably lost.

Gillham (1956), Psyche 63(1): 28, suggested that this name is a nomen nudum, and Koçak (1981), Priamus 1(2): 77, note 73, determined the same. Koçak (1986), Priamus 4(1/2): 24, no. 618, further demonstrated that this name, as proposed by [Schiffermüller], was not accompanied by a description, definition or indication, and stated that Papilio l-album Esper, 1780, is the oldest available name for this taxon (also see Kudrna (1986), Butts. Europ. 8, Section 4.5: 168, and Kudrna and Belicek (2005), Oedippus 23: 1-32). A petition (Case 3241) has been submitted to the I.C.Z.N. concerning various names from [Schiffermüller], 1775. In anticipation of a ruling by the I.C.Z.N. on the status of Schiffermüller’s names, vaualbum is herein considered unavailable.

                   =    ‡”chelone” Schultz, 1903

Dtsche. Entomol. Z. “Iris” 15(2): 324-325.

Original Combination: Vanessa l-album aberr. chelone

Type Locality: “Oesterreich”

Types: Location of “type(s)” not known.

Nymphalis l-album watsoni (G. Hall, 1924)

J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 32(2): 109, pl. 11, fig. 1 ♂ V (holotype).

Original Combination: Aglais j-album watsoni

Type Locality: “Sicamous, British Columbia”

Types: Holotype in AMNH.

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