<documentid="03EAFC0C0ADE25B80A447DCFB0E29240"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5492.2.5"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13219306"ID-ZooBank="4EBF5CFE-4C49-4D87-A4B2-514640ACED97"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="GgImagineBatch"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1722841334903"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Takano, Hitoshi & László, Gyula M."docDate="2024"docId="2B1887953E51FFDFDCD2F962E961FD66"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5492.1.5.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5492 (2)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Eutricha morosa"docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="236"masterDocId="D721FFED3E54FFD9DC45FF88EA4FFE5F"masterDocTitle="The Lasiocampidae (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampoidea) of Maputo Special Reserve, Mozambique: a provisional checklist with descriptions of three new species and taxonomic notes"masterLastPageNumber="259"masterPageNumber="231"pageNumber="236"updateTime="1722842206094"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:titleid="1926668EA46F7897DEF13C6DDCA4081E">The Lasiocampidae (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampoidea) of Maputo Special Reserve, Mozambique: a provisional checklist with descriptions of three new species and taxonomic notes</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="20B3CFC552D5A363F737DB82FD96000D">African Natural History Research Trust, Street Court, Leominster, HR 6 9 QA, UK.</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="EA694B7C53FEFC0A8817E78F8F87B484">African Natural History Research Trust, Street Court, Leominster, HR 6 9 QA, UK.</mods:affiliation>
<bibRefCitationid="C7204B723E51FFDCDD37F962E847F95B"author="Walker, F."box="[370,520,1770,1796]"pageId="5"pageNumber="236"pagination="323 - 706"refId="ref14997"refString="Walker, F. (1865) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXII - Supplement Part 2. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 323 - 706."type="book chapter"year="1865">Walker, 1865</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="C7204B723E51FFDCDD82F8F3E813F9CA"author="Walker, F."box="[455,604,1914,1941]"pageId="5"pageNumber="236"pagination="323 - 706"refId="ref14997"refString="Walker, F. (1865) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXII - Supplement Part 2. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 323 - 706."type="book chapter"year="1865">Walker, 1865</bibRefCitation>
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was one of several species of African moths described by Francis Walker from the collection of William D’Urban (1836–1934). Walker stated the type locality simply as “
” but it can be presumed the specimens originated from the East London/King William’s Town area where D’Urban was based in the early 1860’s (
<bibRefCitationid="C7204B723E52FFDFDDF8FF1FE81BFEEE"author="Trimen, R."box="[445,596,151,177]"pageId="6"pageNumber="237"refId="ref14708"refString="Trimen, R. (1887) South-African Butterflies: a monograph of the extra-tropical species. Vol. I. Trubner & Co., London, xiv + 355 pp, 6 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8997"type="book"year="1887">Trimen 1887</bibRefCitation>
collections were on public display as recently as the 1930s and the cabinets could be browsed by visitors at their leisure (H. Morgenroth, pers. comm.).
<bibRefCitationid="C7204B723E52FFDFDEB3FF57EE1EFEA6"author="Zolotuhin, V. V. & Gurkovich, A. V."box="[758,1105,223,249]"pageId="6"pageNumber="237"pagination="1 - 75"refId="ref15268"refString="Zolotuhin, V. V. & Gurkovich, A. V. (2009) A review of the genus Pachypasa Walker, 1855 sensu lato in Africa (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 63, 1 - 75."type="book chapter"year="2009">Zolotuhin & Gurkovich (2009)</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="C7204B723E52FFDFD805FE8BEAF8FF1E"author="Zolotuhin, V. V. & Gurkovich, A. V."pageId="6"pageNumber="237"pagination="1 - 75"refId="ref15268"refString="Zolotuhin, V. V. & Gurkovich, A. V. (2009) A review of the genus Pachypasa Walker, 1855 sensu lato in Africa (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 63, 1 - 75."type="book chapter"year="2009">Zolotuhin & Gurkovich 2009: 37</bibRefCitation>
). Perhaps an assumption was made that all of Walker’s types are found in NHMUK (which is certainly not the case—there are many in OUMNH), or they were aware of the reference in
<bibRefCitationid="C7204B723E52FFDFDF9FFEC3EEECFF3A"author="Horn, W. & Kahle, I. & Friese, G. & Gaedike, R."box="[986,1187,331,357]"pageId="6"pageNumber="237"refId="ref13563"refString="Horn, W., Kahle, I., Friese, G. & Gaedike, R. (1990) Collectiones entomologicae. Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Berlin, 573 pp."type="book"year="1990">
designation is however invalid as it was not sufficiently in accordance with the qualifying conditions listed under Article 75.3 of the
<bibRefCitationid="C7204B723E52FFDFD947FE1BEFD8FFF2"author="ICZN & International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature"box="[1282,1431,403,429]"pageId="6"pageNumber="237"refId="ref13601"refString="ICZN [International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature] (1999) International code of zoological nomenclature. 4 th Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xx + 306 pp."type="book"year="1999">ICZN (1999)</bibRefCitation>
, namely Articles 75.3.4 (“reasons for believing the name-bearing type specimen to be lost or destroyed, and the steps that had been taken to trace it”) and 75.3.6 (“evidence that the
specimen may refer to a different taxon entirely. The natural history stores at RAMM could not be accessed during the period of this present research but it is possible that Walker’s
