Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

Genus:
Tribonophora Hübner, 1806 . Tentamen determinationis digestionis : [1].    [BHL]

Status:
Rejected Name

Homonyms: 2

Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : CUCULLIINAE

Notes:
Nye (1975) stated:-

Included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes by Int. Commn zool. nom. 1966, Bull. zool. Nom. 23 Opinion 789: 216. Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology: Name No. 1887.

Only included species: * Tribonophora pygmaea Hübner, 1808, later made nomenclaturally available as Paectes pygmaea Hübner, 1818.

See: CUCULLIA Schrank, 1802.

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Senior name:
Cucullia Schrank, 1802: 157.