| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Authors: | ICZN, |
| Journal: | Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature |
| Volume: | 68 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page: | 84 |
| Pagination: | 84-85 |
| Date Published: | 03/2011 |
| Type of Article: | Opinion |
| ISSN: | 0007-5167 |
| Keywords: | butterflies, Colombia, Heliconius, Heliconius melpomene bellula, Heliconius melpomene mocoa, Heliconius tristero, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Nomenclature, NYMPHALIDAE, taxonomy |
| Abstract: | The Commission has ruled that the application for the proposed conser- vation of the species-group names Heliconius tristero Brower, 1996 and Heliconius melpomene mocoa Brower, 1996 (Lepidoptera: NYMPHALIDAE) for mimetic butterflies from the Putumayo region of southeastern Colombia by suppressing the senior name Heliconius melpomene bellula Brown, 1979 is not approved. |
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