Taxacom: [KU SUSPECT SPAM] Re: nomen nudum and synonymy question

[Laurent Raty]

So far as I understand, if the taxon was called "ab." (aberratio) in the OD,?it is
deemed infrasubspecific under 45.6.2, and is therefore excluded from the scope of
the Code under 1.3.4 -- thus it does not compete for priority.
Such a name will take precedence from the first work (if any) which used it as the
name of a subspecies while simultaneously meeting the other requirements to make
it available.

Cheers, Laurent -


On 1/27/23 06:18, Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom wrote:
>   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