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Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 53(2), 1999, 76
"ARGYRESTHIA VISALIELLA CHAMBERS 1875" (ARGYRESTH1IDAE), A NOMEN NUDUM Additional key words: Lepidoptera, North America, taxonomy.
While checking the type localities of species names attributed to Vactor T. Chambers for an annotated checklist of Kentucky Lepidoptera, I encountered a name that stands in synonymy of Ar-gyresthia apicimaculella Chambers 1874 (Argyresthiidae; type locality: "Kentucky"). The name is "visalieUa Chambers 1875," as the two names are listed as entry #2438 in Hodges et al. (1983).
This same synonymy appears as #6456 in Dyar ("1903" [1904] ) along with a page reference to Chambers' presumed original description; however the publication date is quoted erroneously by Dyar as "1874." In that 1875 paper we find not an original description of visalieUa but a reference to it in the discussion of "Ar-gyresthia goedartella Auct." in which Chambers states, after describing a specimen presumed to be that species, "It is a more handsome species than A. andereggiella, next after which as to beauty I would place A. visalieUa Cham."
In searching for the original description of "A. visalieUa" I found only one "visalieUa"—that of Chambers 1873, p. 113, described in Cyane Chambers, but listed in Hodges et al. (1983) #307 as Choro-pleca vesaliella [sic] (Cham. 1873). The type locality of this name is Visalia, Kentucky, which is in Kenton County not far south of Chambers' home town of Covington. Chambers wrote "Several specimens captured in June resting on forest trees at Visalia, Kentucky." This constitutes a rare specific type locality published by Chambers.
Thus it appears that "A. visalieUa Chambers" is a nomen nudum. Also the name Choropleca visalieUa (Cham. 1873) is misspelled in Hodges et al. (1983) and was also misspelled in Forbes (1923).
I thank Ronald W. Hodges and Paul A. Opler for reviewing this manuscript.
Literature Cited
Chambers, V. T. 1873. Micro-Lepidoptera. Can. Entomol 5:12-15, 44-50, 72-75, 85-91, 110-115, 124-138, 147-152, 173-176, 185-190, 229-232.
Chambers, V. T. 1875. Tineina from Canada. Can. Entomol. 7:124-128, 144-147, 209-213.
Dyar, H. G. "1903" [1904J. A List of North American Lepidoptera and key to the literature of this order of insects. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 52, 722 pp.
Forbes, W. T. M. 1923. The Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States. Part 1. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Station Bull. 23, 729 pp.
Hodges, R. W. 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico. E. W. Classey Ltd. and The Wedge Entomol. Res. Found., Washington, D.C. 284 pp.
Charles V. Covell Jr., Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292-0001, U.SA.
Received for publication 1 August 1999; revised and accepted 30 August 1999.
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Date of Issue (Vol. 53, No. 2): 13 January 2000