Taxonomic Swap 144667 (Committed on 2024-07-07)

bubo Geyer, 1832 is listed in Moths of Thailand 3(2) as a junior homonym (preoccupied) of bubo Fabricius, 1775, the replacement name of leksawasdi being published in 2006 (one year after the Moths of Borneo, parts 15&16) by Koçak & Kemal.
bubo Fabricius, 1775, is a junior synonym of Erebus macrops Linnaeus, 1768

Moths of Thailand 3(2) Noctuoidea (Citation)
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not going to commit this one until the homonymy is correctly resolved.

Posted by hkmoths 3 months ago

Koçak & Kemal, 2006: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328199208

Table 1 - Table 1. Corrections and Explanations of the publication Moths of Thailand, Noctuidae
entry 115.
Noctua bubo Hübner,1832 is an invalid name, as it is junior primary homonym of Noctua bubo Fabricius,1775 (see Homonymy Rules of the ICZN). Therefore, we propose here a new species, Avatha leksawasdi sp.n

Posted by hkmoths 3 months ago

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