The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has declined to use its plenary power to set aside the existing lectotype of Chionobas chryxusDoubleday, 1849 and to designate a neotype. However, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has used its specific powers to confirm that the name-bearing type is the male specimen illustrated in Doubleday (1849).
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30 August 2019
Opinion 2434 (Case 3495) – Chionobas chryxus Doubleday, 1849 (currently Oeneis chryxus; Insecta, Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae): conservation of usage by designation of a neotype not granted
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Insecta
Lepidoptera
nomenclature
nymphalid butterfly
nymphalidae
Oeneis
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