International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

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nycteis Doubleday 1847 [originally in Melitaea], The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations and a catalogue of the species of each genus, vol. 1, pl. 23, fig. 3, as defined by the holotype (B.M. Type no. Rh 8433 in the Natural History Museum, London (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 2160

nyctelea Linnaeus 1776 [originally in Strix], Cat. Birds Beasts Fishes Ins. Edwardsnat. Hist.: 6 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 412 

Nycteribia Latreille 1796, Précis Caract. Ins.: 176 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Nycteribia pedicularia Latreille [1804-1805], in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins., 14: 403) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 128, Direction 63

Nycteris Borkhausen 1797, in Eisenach, Der Zoologe, 1(21): 66 (a junior homonym of Nycteris Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire & Cuvier 1795). Direction 24  

Nycteris Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier 1795, Mag. encyclop., 2(6): 186 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Vespertilio hispidus Schreber [1774], Die Säugthiere, 1: 169, pl. 56) (Mammalia). Opinion 111

Nygolaimus Cobb 1913, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 3: 441 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Dorylaimus brachyuris de Man 1880) (Nematoda). Opinion 1876

nymphaea Richardson 1846 [originally in Clupea], 15th. Rept. Brit. Assoc. (Cambridge 1845): 304 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 901

NYMPHALIDAE Swainson 1827, Phil. Mag. (n.s.), 1(2): 187 (type genus: Nymphalis Kluk 1802) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Direction 99  

Nymphalis Kluk 1802, Zwierz. Hist. nat. pocz. gospod., 4: 86 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Hemming 1933 (Entomologist, 66: 223): Papilio polychloros Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 477) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 278

Nymphidia Boisduval & Leconte 1833, Hist. gén. Icon. Lépid. Chen. Amér. sept. (14): 131 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Nymphidium Fabricius 1807). Opinion 755

Nymphidium [Illiger] 1807, Allgem. Lit. Ztg., Halle (Jena), 1807 (No. 2): 1180 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 232 

Nymphidium Boisduval & Leconte 1833, Hist. gén. Icon. Lépid. Chen. Amér. sept. (14): 131 (a junior homonym of Nymphidium Fabricius 1807). Opinion 755

Nymphidium Fabricius 1807, Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger), 6: 286 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: neuter) (type species, by designation by Crotch 1872 (Cistula entomol., 1: 66): Papilio caricae Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 484) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 171  

Nymphula Schrank 1802, Fauna boica, vol. 2, part 2, p. 162 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Phalaena stagnata Donovan 1806) (type genus of NYMPHULINAE Duponchel 1845) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1406, Opinion 2021  

NYMPHULINAE Duponchel 1845, Catalogue méthodique des Lépidoptères d’Europe, p. 201 (type genus: Nymphula Schrank 1802), ruled in accordance with the precepts of the Code not to have precedence over ACENTROPINAE Stephens 1835 whenever their type genera are placed in the same family-group taxon (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 2021 

Nysius Dallas 1852, List Spec. hemipt. Ins. Brit. Mus. (2): 551 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Lygaeus thymi Wolff 1804, Icon. Cimicum (4): 149) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 319

Nysso Latreille 1796, Préc. Car. gén. Ins.: 125 (ruled under the plenary power to be an incorrect original spelling for Nysson Latreille 1796). Opinion 1115

Nysson Latreille 1796, Préc. Car. gén. Ins.: 125 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Shuckard 1837 (Essay Indig. Fossorial Hym.: 99): Sphex spinosus Forster 1771, New Sp. Ins.: 87) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1115

NYSSONINAE (correction of ‘NYSSONIENS’, ‘NYSSONII’) Latreille 1804, Déterville’s Nouv. Dict. Hist. nat., 24: 178, 180 (type genus: Nysson Latreille 1796) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1115