Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Rank Genus | Phylum Arthropoda Family Lycaenidae | |
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Lower classifications Capys alphaeus, Capys penningtoni, Capys disjunctus | ||
Capys is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Afrotropical realm.
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Conservation of the name
In 1819, Jacob Hübner published the generic name Scoptes, including three species but without designating a type. The generic name was more or less forgotten afterwards. In 1966, Norman Denbigh Riley, for practical reasons, selected Papilio alphaeus Cramer, 1777, as the type species of Scoptes, by which Scoptes became an objective synonym of Capys, and started a case to suppress the name Scoptes for purposes of priority. In 1986, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature suppressed the name Scoptes (for the principle of priority not principle of homonymy) in order to conserve the name Capys Hewitson.
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