Balintus

Abstract: The purpose of this application, under Articles 101, 131 and 811 of the Code, is to stabilise the usage of five generic names of Neotropical butterflies by ruling that they are available from their original descriptions D'Abrera (2001) and D'Abrera & Balint (2001) proposed eight generic names in the lycaenidae [Leach], [1815] in which they differentiated the type species, not the genus The availability of some of these names has subsequently been interpreted differently by different authors One of these generic names, Salazaria D'Abrera & Balint, 2001, is widely used on websites A second, Balintus D'Abrera, 2001, has been treated as a nomenclaturally and taxonomically valid genus A third, Gulliveria D'Abrera & Balint, 2001, is a junior homonym that was replaced with Megathecla Robbins, 2002 and Gullicaena Balint, 2002 However, differentiating the type species does not satisfy the requirements of Article 131 of the Code, so all these names are unavailable To promote nomenclatural stabi