NOMINA CIRCUMSCRIBENTIA INSECTORUM

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REFERENCES

                                                   

Typified names:

Macrojugatae Comstock 1893

NOMEN: Macrojugatae Comstock 1893 [J.H. Comstock. Evolution and taxonomy. An essay on the application of the classification of the theory of natural selection in the classification of animals and plants, illustrated by a study of wings of insects, and by a contribution to the classification of the Lepidoptera. / Ithaca 1893: 39–113] PDF

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Comstock 1893): Hepialidae

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS: 

= Jugata Tillyard 1918b (non Jugatae Comstock 1892) 

= Aplostomatoptera Kiriakoff 1948 

= Gymnocera Friese 1970

NON-MONOSEMANTIC CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:  

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Hepialus/fg (incl. Prototheore)

TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Hepialidae, Hepialoidea

MODERN STATUS:  the valid, the oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.