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Zerynthia

Zerynthia is a genus of swallowtail butterflies placed in the subfamily Parnassiinae. The genus has a complex history; a multiplicity of names have been applied to its species.

Species

Zerynthia consists of the following species:

Taxonomy

See Ackery (1975), Larsen (1973), Kuhna (1977) Kocak (1975, 1977) , de Freina (1979) Vazrick Nazari and Felix A. H. Sperling (2007). Ackery (1975) pointed out that Zerynthia is a junior synonym of Parnalius Rafinesque, 1815 published as a replacement name for the preoccupied Thais Fabricius and moreover correctly listed by Sherborne (1929) Neave (1940) and Cowan (1970). Parnalius has subsequently been suppressed cf. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 36 (1979): 102)

Synonymy

  • Zerynthia <small>Ochsenheimer, 1816</small>
  • Thais <small>Fabricius, 1807 (Systema glossatorum: XI)</small>: typus moneat.; junior homonym of Thais <small>Roding, 1789</small>.
  • Thais <small>Fabricius, 1807 (Mag. fur Insektenkunde 6: 283)</small> type Papilio hypsiphyle <small>Fabricius</small> by monotypy.
  • Parnalius <small>Rafinesque, 1815 (Analyse Nat.: 128)</small> type by Art. 67 (1): Papilio hypsiphyle <small>Fabricius</small>.
  • Zerynthia <small>Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Schmett. Europ. 4: 128)</small> type polyxena <small>Schiff</small>, selected by Scudder; n.n. pro Thais <small>Fabricius</small>. subspecies polyxena, medisicaste, rumina.
  • Eugraphis <small>(Dalman i.l.) Billberg, 1820 (Ennum. Ins.: 75)</small> type hypsiphyle <small>Fabricius</small> by monotypy.
  • Zerinthia <small>Sodovsky, 1837 (Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 1834 (10): 82:</small> nom. emend. pro Zerynthia Ochs.
  • Cerynthia <small>Staudinger, 1861 (Staudinger and Wocke: Cat. Lep. Europ. (1)</small>: 1: nom. emend.
  • Zerynthyia <small>Zerny, 1927 (Eos, Madrid 3: 313)</small>: nom. emend.
  • Thays <small>Rocci, 1928 (Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital. 10: 55)</small>: nom. emend.
  • Allancastria <small>Bryk, 1934 (Parnassiana 2: 104)</small> type cerisyi <small>Godart</small> by monotypy: synonymised by Ackery, 1975. NOTE: subsequent researchers have typically not considered Allancastria to be a synonym, and treat it either as a valid genus (e.g.) or as a valid subgenus within Zerynthia (e.g.).

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