Genus:
Appias Hübner, 1819 . Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (6) : 91.
Status:
Available Name
Homonyms: 1
Higher classification:
PAPILIONOIDEA : PIERIDAE : PIERINAE : Tribe unassigned
Type-species:
Papilio zelmira Stoll , 1780 , in Cramer Uitl. Kapellen 4 (27) : 64, pl. 320, figs C, D. .
Type-species designation:
by subsequent designation by, Butler , 1870 Cist. ent. 1 : 49.
Notes:
Hemming (1967) stated:-
The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio zelmira is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as representing the same taxon as that represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio libythea Fabricius, 1775 (Syst. Ent. : 471).
APPIAS was included within the subfamily PIERIDAE: PIERINAE by Ackery et al., in Kristensen (1999).
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