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

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Genus:
Cucullia Schrank, 1802 . Fauna boica 2(2) : 157.    [BHLBHL]

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : CUCULLIINAE

Type-species:
Phalaena umbratica Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturae (Edn 10), 1: 515.    [BHLBHL]

Type-species designation:
by subsequent designation by Curtis , 1824. British entomology 1: 45.    [BHLBHL]

Type specimens:
Type(s) [EUROPE]: ? Locality, (LS, London)..

Notes:
Lophia Sodoffsky, 1837, an unjustifiable emendation, not an objective replacement name of Cucullia Schrank; Kocak, 1981, Priamus 1 (3) : 108.

Pseudocopicucullia Dumont, 1928 was downgraded to a subgenus of Cucullia Schrank, 1802 by Ronkay & Ronkay 1988, Annales Historico Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 80 : 94.

Calocucullia Ronkay & Ronkay, 1987 was established to denote a subgenus of Cucullia Schrank, 1802 and was raised to generic level by Ronkay & Ronkay, 1994, Noctuidae Europaeae. Vol. 6, Cuculliinae 1, p.171.

Cucullia Schrank, 1802, was treated as a valid genus and brought out of synonymy by Ronkay and Ronkay, 1995, Noctuidae Europaeae, 7 (2) : 10.

Poole (1989) included ARGYRITIS Hübner, 1821; CALLAENIA Hübner, 1821; EMPUSA Hübner, 1821; EUDERAEA Hübner, 1821; TRIBUNOPHORA Hübner, 1822; LOPHIA Sodoffsky, 1837; LATHOSEA Grote, 1881; EPINYCTIS Grote, 1882; NYCTEROPHAETA Smith, 1882; RANCORA Smith, 1892; COPICUCULLIA Smith, 1894; ARGYROGALEA Hampson, 1906; ARGYROMATA Hamspon, 1906; CHELIGALEA Hampson, 1906; EMPUSADA Hampson, 1906; METLAOUIA Dumont, 1928; PSEUDOCOPICUCULLIA Dumont, 1929 and PSEUDONYCTEROPHAETA Berio, 1934 as junior synonyms of CUCULLIA Schrank, 1802.

Poole (1989) included EUCALIMIA Hübner, 1821 as a junior synonym of CUCULLIA Schrank, 1802 on page 394, although he did not list it amongst the synonyms of CUCULLIA Schrank, 1802 on page 292.

Poole (1989) included 224 species in the genus CUCULLIA.

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Junior name(s):
Callaenia Hübner, 1821: 246.
Callainia ; Hübner, 1826: 37.
Lophia Sodoffsky, 1837: 88.
Tribonophora Hübner, 1806: [1].
Tribonophorae Ochsenheimer, 1816: 87.
Tribunophora Hübner, 1822: 20, 37.


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