Taxacom: Genus question - Goryna (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)

John Grehan calabar.john at gmail.com
Tue May 17 14:54:39 CDT 2022


Thanks David! John

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 3:40 PM David Bettman <dbettman at calacademy.org>
wrote:

> Dear John,
>
> As far as I can tell, the first usage of the incorrect subsequent spelling
> "Goryna" was in Lucas 1901, which referenced the 1899 Quail article but
> misspelled "Gorina" as "Goryna".  Here are BHL links for the relevant pages:
>
> Quail 1899: 340 <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F32219159&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C0c158fc9ed3447c8482808da3842a902%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637884156207815179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wfgW7buieA6fUWg1jmorF0byv2LHqGjglRl3zBZab1g%3D&reserved=0>
> (first usage of the incorrect subsequent spelling "Gorina")
> Lucas 1901: 785 <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F14116978&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C0c158fc9ed3447c8482808da3842a902%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637884156207815179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZM0tn8ePg5gaZm7lavRDKDEK6dXG1IWFaIfcV0A3%2Fig%3D&reserved=0>
> (first usage of the incorrect subsequent spelling "Goryna"; the reference
> to Quail's publication is given in full on p. 619
> <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F14116812&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C0c158fc9ed3447c8482808da3842a902%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637884156207815179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wWfVTuygD0%2BjsLRMugWfTgVACBVWX5oTx7gF%2F3nrjeU%3D&reserved=0> of the same work,
> where it is spelled "Gorina")
> Nye & Fletcher 1991: 137
> <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F51213701&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C0c158fc9ed3447c8482808da3842a902%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637884156207815179%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GRiEeZ%2F0ICUx8mEC%2BYStfMaQi5CkoJv%2B0uDCcCC0PYU%3D&reserved=0> (attribution of both
> "Gorina" and "Goryna" to Quail 1899: 340)
>
> The online database
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> genus-group names built from the Hemming and Nye & Fletcher volumes does
> occasionally have corrections to the original printed volumes, but in this
> case it just repeats the error from Nye & Fletcher 1991.
>
> As an aside, I've noticed that a lot of folks aren't aware that The
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> Best wishes,
>   David
>
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> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 11:50 AM John Grehan via Taxacom <
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
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> For those of you adept and various databases or other resources, I have a
>> question about 'Goryna'. This has been cited as a junior synonym to
>> Wiseana
>> (or Oxycanus) that was attributed to Quail, A. 1889. Description of
>> hepialid larva, - Gorina despecta. Entomologists Record and Journal of
>> Variation 11: 340-341.
>>
>> As far as I can see, the article does have the other synonym 'Gorina' ,
>> but
>> not 'Goryna'. Apparently the first attribution was by Nye, I. W. B. &
>> Fletcher, D.S. (eds.) 1975-91. The generic names of moths of the world.
>> Vol. 6. British Museum (Natural History), London. (although I don't have a
>> copy of the page for that name).
>>
>> If anyone can shed any light  on this I would be most interested.
>>
>> John Grehan
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