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

Genus:
Carposina Herrich-Schäffer, 1853 . Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Europ. 5 : 10 [key], 38. [;1853, Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Europ. 6 (60): Erläuterung Tafeln Microlepid. page VI and pl.XII figs 1, 21854, Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Europ. 5 (64): 142.]    [BHL]

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
COPROMORPHOIDEA : CARPOSINIDAE

Type-species:
Carposina berberidella Herrich-Schäffer, 1853. Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Europ. 5: pl.81 fig.614 (legend non-binominal). [; 1853, ibidem 6 (60): Erläuterung Tafeln Microlepid. page VI and pl.XII figs 1, 2; 1854, ibidem 5 (64): 142.]

Type-species designation:
by subsequent designation by Fernald , 1908. Genera Tortricidae Types : 34.

Type specimens:
? Type status ? COUNTRY: ? Locality, (? Depository)..

Notes:
Carposina Herrich-Schaffer, 1855, was designated as a valid genus and brought out of synonymy by Zimmerman 1978, Microlepidoptera, Part 1, Insects of Hawaii, 9 : 797.

Nye & Fletcher (1991) stated:-

Herrich-Schüffer attributed Carposina to Zeller and berberidella to Mann, each an incorrect authorship.
Carposina was established in the Tineidae; it was placed in the Conchylidae, now Cochylidae, by Meyrick, 1882, Entomologist's mon. Mag. 19: 69; in the Tortricidae by Rebel, 1894, Annin naturw. Mus. Wien. 9: 92; in a seperate subfamily of the Tortricidae, the Carposinae by Walsingham, 1897, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1897: 59; the Carposinae was raised to family rank by Walsingham, 1907, in Sharp, Fauna hawaii. 1 (5): 654.

The Herrich-Schüffer dates are taken from Hemming, 1937, Hübner 1: 579-589.

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