Genus:
Chilasa Moore, 1881 . Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4) : 153.
Status:
Available Name
Homonyms: 1
Higher classification:
PAPILIONOIDEA : PAPILIONIDAE : Subfamily unassigned
Type-species:
Papilio dissimilis Linnaeus , 1758 Systema Naturae (Edn 10) 1 : 479. .
Type-species designation:
by original designation
Notes:
Hemming (1967) stated:-
The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio dissimilis Linnaeus is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as an infra-subspecific form of the taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio clytia Linnaeus, 1758 (loc. cit. (ed. 10) 1 : 479). As the specific names clytia and dissimilis were published on the same date and in the same work (indeed, on the same page), the relative precedence to be accorded to them depends upon the choice of the First Reviser. That these names apply to different forms of the same specific unit has long been the view of systematists in this group. It is not altogether easy however, to determine who was strictly the First Reviser in this case, owing to the fact that far into the XIXth century many leading authors treated zoological nomenclature as not beginning before 1767 and in consequence neglected the 10th edition of the Syst. Nat. However Butler in 1869 (Cat. diurn. Lep. Fabricius : 244) certainly acted as a First Reviser, according precedence to the name clytia Linnaeus over the name dissimilis Linnaeus ; a similar choice was made by Kirby in 1871 (Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep. : 532-533). This arrangement has been followed by all subsequent authors.
Chilasa Moore, 1881, is a junior [subjective] synonym of Papilio Linnaeus, 1758; given by Niculescu, 1982, Niculescu, Revue Vervietoise D'Histoire Naturelle 39 (1-3) : 6. Confirmation through comparison of genitalia.
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