Taxacom: Hepialidae vs Epialidae

[Donald Hobern]

Hi John.

The actual page link is https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F27026566&data=04%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C1bfb2a808e1546a922c408d9fa7e8d0f%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637816243852247052%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=L6mS1rG9g8KCt2oNpDHtAqekvVi1ohdR4GyAfnxbiMw%3D&reserved=0, and something weird has happened to your copy of the Greek characters - the suggested word seems to be ἠπίαλος meaning 'ague' or 'nightmare' (https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%253Atext%253A1999.04.0057%253Aalphabetic%2Bletter%253D*h%253Aentry%2Bgroup%253D19%253Aentry%253Dh%2529pi%252Falos&data=04%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C1bfb2a808e1546a922c408d9fa7e8d0f%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637816243852247052%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=YYS1FYZCnrvYvWhV3gp%2FrEo8Hh0To9y2PTVB%2BUYy0jA%3D&reserved=0).

This sounds a doubtful etymology to me, but that's not really the point. I would think this would fall into the category of "unjustified emendation" - the code doesn't support efforts to fix spelling of names based on grammar and etymology - the original stands.

Donald


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Subject: Taxacom: Hepialidae vs Epialidae

in 1878 Burmeister listed the moth family 'Hepialidae' as 'Epialidae' with
the footnote

(*) L'ancienne ortographe : Hepialidae est fausse, le nom générique étant
dérivé ήπίϦϵάλοϛ du mot grec, febris algida.

my English translation being

(*) The old spelling: Hepialidae is wrong, the generic name being derived
ήπίϦϵάλοϛ from the Greek word, febris algida.

The term 'Epialidae' was never adopted. Was this because Burmeister was
wrong, or because of some overriding clause in the Code? I would be
grateful for any enlightenment as I am as dead as a doornail when it comes
to such matters.

If necessary, the full source is at
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fitem%2F86774%23page%2F527%2Fmode%2F1up&data=04%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C1bfb2a808e1546a922c408d9fa7e8d0f%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637816243852247052%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=Du%2BUEllyk%2FGtjDzUCvJzV2Q9z%2FFnd9DBMwoFDZmXm18%3D&reserved=0 see page
292.
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