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Taxonomy
Perigonia Walker, 1856 [Invalid]
Nomenclature
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Subtribe: DilophonotinaGenus: Perigonia
Genus:
Perigonia Walker, 1856
Usage:
invalid
Unacceptability Reason:
homonym & junior synonym
Reference:
Sphingidae 76 (key), 100
Type data:
Type species: Perigonia stulta Herrich-Schäffer, [1854], by subsequent designation by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool., 9 (suppl.): 423.
Nomenclature notes:
A junior homonym and junior objective synonym of Perigonia Herrich-Schäffer. Walker, like Herrich-Schäffer, treated Perigonia as a Boisduval manuscript name and published it as a new generic name.