Genus:
Taxila Doubleday, 1847 . List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 2 : 2.
Status:
Available Name
Homonyms: 2
Higher classification:
PAPILIONOIDEA : RIODINIDAE : NEMEOBIINAE
Type-species:
Emesis drupadi Horsfield , 1828 Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Company (1) : explic. pl. 2, figs 3, 3a. .
Type-species designation:
by subsequent designation by, Scudder , 1875 Proc. amer. acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 276.
Notes:
Hemming (1967) stated:-
The taxon represented by the nominal species Emesis drupadi Horsfield is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as a subspecies of the taxon represented by the older established nominal species Papilio haquinus Fabricius, 1793, Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 55).
Junior name(s):
Taxilia ; Frühstorfer, 1896: 302.
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