| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Authors: | ICZN, |
| Journal: | Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page: | 213 |
| Pagination: | 213-214 |
| Date Published: | 09/2006 |
| Type of Article: | Opinion |
| ISSN: | 0007-5167 |
| Keywords: | butterflies, Chlosyne gorgone, Chlosyne ismeria, Chlosyne nycteis, Lepidoptera, Melitaea, Nomenclature, NYMPHALIDAE, taxonomy |
| Abstract: | The Commission has ruled that the specific name Melitaea nycteis Doubleday, 1847 (currently Chlosyne nycteis) is conserved for a widespread North American species of butterfly (family NYMPHALIDAE) by suppression of the problematic name M. ismeria Boisduval & Le Conte, 1835. |
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