Zerynthia

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Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Parnassiinae Scientific name Zerynthia Higher classification Swallowtail butterfly Order Butterflies and moths		Family Papilionidae Tribe Zerynthiini Phylum Arthropoda Rank Genus

Similar Zerynthia polyxena, Zerynthia rumina, Butterflies and moths, Butterfly, Swallowtail butterfly

Zerynthia rumina spanish festoon

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.

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Species

Zerynthia consists of the following species:

Zerynthia caucasica - (Lederer, 1864)

Zerynthia polyxena - (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)

Zerynthia rumina - (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

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

Zerynthia Zerynthia rumina Spanish Festoon

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

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Zerynthia Ochsenheimer, 1816

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

Thais Fabricius, 1807 (Mag. fur Insektenkunde 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 (Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 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

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