Zerynthia

Zerynthia
Zerynthia specimens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Section: Cossina
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Parnassiinae
Tribe: Zerynthiini
Genus: Zerynthia
Ochsenheimer, 1816
Species

Zerynthia rumina
Zerynthia polyxena
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Zerynthia (Ochsenheimer, 1816) 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.[1]

Species

Zerynthia consists of the following species:[2]

Taxonomy

See Ackery (1975), Larsen (1973), Kuhna (1977), Kocak (1975, 1977), Freina (1979).

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. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 36 (1979): 102)

The Generic synonymy is as follows:

Zerynthia Ochsenheimer, 1816

Thais Fabricius, 1807 (Syst. Gloss: XI): typus mancat.; junior homonym of Thais Roding, 1789.

Thais Fabricius, 1807 (Mag. Insekt 6: 283) type Papilio hypsiphyle Fabricius by monotypy.

Parnalius Rafinesque, 1815 (Analyse Nat.: 128) type by Art. 67 (1): Papilio hypsiphyle Fabricius.

Zerynthia Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Schmett. Europ. 4: 128 type polyxena Schiff, selected by Scudder; n.n. pro Thais Fabricius. subspecies polyxena, medisicaste, rumina.

Eugraphis (Dalman i.l.) Billberg, 1820 (Ennum. Ins.: 75) type hypsiphyle Fabricius by monotypy.

Zerinthia Sodovsky, 1837 (Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1834 (10): 82: nom. emend. pro Zerynthia Ochs.

Cerynthia Staudinger, 1861 (Staudinger and Wocke: Cat. Lep. Europ. (1): 1: nom. emend.

Zerynthyia Zerny, 1927 (Eos, Madrid 3: 313): nom. emend.

Thays Rocci, 1928 (Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital. 10: 55): nom. emend.

Allancastria Bryk, 1934 (Parnassiana 2: 104) type cerisyi Godart by monotypy: synonymised by Ackery, 1975.

References

  1. Talk:Zerynthia
  2. Catalogue of Life:2009; Geraadpleegd op 20-11-2009 (English)
  3. [Denis, J. N. C. M. & Schiffermüller, I.] (1775) Ankündung [sic] eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend. [frontispiece], [title page], 323 pp., Augustin Bernardi, Wien.
  4. Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Vol. 1 (Animalia). , Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm].

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