''Zerynthia'' is a
genus
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of
swallowtail butterflies placed in the subfamily
Parnassiinae
The Parnassiinae or snow Apollos are a subfamily of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae.
The subfamily includes about 50 medium-sized, white or yellow species. The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across ...
. 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
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
* In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...
of ''Parnalius''
Rafinesque
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (; October 22, 1783September 18, 1840) was a French 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ultimat ...
, 1815 published as a replacement name for the preoccupied ''Thais''
Fabricius Fabricius ( la, smith, german: Schmied, Schmidt) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*people from the Ancient Roman gens Fabricia:
**Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome
* Johann Goldsmid (1587†...
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''
Ochsenheimer
Ferdinand Ochsenheimer (17 March 1767 – 2 November 1822) was a German actor and entomologist (lepidopterist).
Life
Ochsenheimer was born and brought up in Mainz (then in the Electorate of Mainz) and began to show an interest in butterflies ...
, 1816
*''Thais''
Fabricius, 1807 (''Systema glossatorum'': XI): typus moneat.; junior
homonym
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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
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'', ''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. 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.
Fauan Europaea
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References
External links
Tree of Life
{{Taxonbar, from=Q1317945
Papilionidae
Butterfly genera
Taxa named by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer