Taxacom: nomen nudum and synonymy question

Thu Jan 26 23:18:59 CST 2023

 Yes, that should make it an available name, with priority over any later synonyms
Cheers, Stephen
    On Friday, 27 January 2023 at 05:17:23 pm NZDT, John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:  

 Thanks Stephen,
Following my email, I happened to see another reference to?Krulikowsky?which gave reference to the 'decorata' name in another article of virtually the same title: "Krulikowsky, L. 1908 Einige neue Variet?ten und Aberrationen der Lepidopteren des ?stlichen Russlands Societas Entomologica 23: 18."
In this article he does give a formal (brief) description as follows (original German then my Google translation)
32 Hepialus hecta L. ab ? decorata. Am Saume der Vorderfl?gel steht eine dritte Reihe kleinerer Silberflecken. Auch die Hinterfl?gel sind am Saume unter den Rippen mit l?nglichen Spuren solcher Flecke versehen. Sehr selten.

Hepialus hecta L. ab ? decorata. At the edge of the fore wings there is a third row of smaller silver spots. The hind wings also have elongated traces of such spots on the edge under the ribs. Very rare.

So is this description (but without reference to a depository) adequate to treat the name as valid (as a subspecies or infrasubspecies name) for the date of publication under the code [yes I could look it up, but sometimes the feedback faster and reliable]? i.e. not a nomen nudum?
John Grehan

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 11:09 PM Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

 It depends on the details of the specific case. Often the term "nomen nudum" is used to mean an unavailable name for any reason, so the species may still be recognisable. Also, if the specimens forming the basis of a nomen nudum can be traced and examined, then the species may also be recognisable.Cheers, Stephen
    On Friday, 27 January 2023 at 04:53:26 pm NZDT, John Grehan via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:  

 Dear colleagues,

? Krulikowsky 1908 (ref below)? listed under the species name Hepialus
hectus, a subspecific name as ''ab. [aberration] male decorata Krul. K. 1
Ex'

Nielsen et al (2000) in their world catalog of Hepialidae, listed decorata
under Phymatopus hecta as a junior synonym, but also as a nomen nudum.
Would I be correct to understand that if the name 'decorata' is a nomen
nudum (having no description or illustration), then it cannot be listed as
a synonym since there is no way to know if it were really a form of
Phymatopus hecta or even of any other Hepialidae? (and that's assuming the
individual were competent at least to recognize whether a moth was a
hepialid or not.

Feedback, if any, greatly appreciated.

John Grehan

Krulikowsky, L. 1908 Neues Verzeichnis der Lepidopteren des Gouvernements
Kasan (?stl. Russland). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 'Iris' 21:
202-272.

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