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Phaedra

Number: 22470.0
Author: Horsfield
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Phaedra
Journal: Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy
Year: 1829
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 123
Part: (2)
Ref Id: 10042.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Curetinae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Type Country: ? COUNTRY
Type Depository: (? Depository)
Type Locality: ? Locality
Types: ? Type status
Type Des Ref Id: 2544.0
Type Des: by subsequent designation by
Type Des Author: Hemming
Type Des Year: 1934
Type Des Journal: Gen. Names hol. Butts
Type Des Title: The generic names of the holarctic butterflies
Type Des Volume: 1
Type Des Page: 120
Type Sp Author: Horsfield
Type Sp Journal: Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy
Type Sp Page: 124
Type Sp Part: (2)
Type Sp Year: 1829
Type Sp Ref Id: 10042.0
Type Sp Genus: Phaedra
Type Sp: terricola
Memo Links: ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycaenidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=PHAEDRA']
Memo: Hemming (1967) stated:- Horsfield placed in this genus two new nominal species, the above species and Phaedra insularis (: 124). Kirby (1871, Syn. Cat. diurn. Lep : 418-419) cited both under the name Curetis thetys (Drury). On the basis of this subjective synonymy Scudder concluded (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 246) that this genus should be looked upon as monotypical with Papilio thetys [sic, see below] Drury, [1773], as type-species. The first of these conclusions was incorrect, because (as shown above) Horsfield included two nominal species in this genus ; the second, because Papilio thetys [sic] Drury was not one of the originally included nominal species and was therefore ineligible for selection as type-species. This genus remained without a validly fixed type-species until in 1934 I so selected Phaedra terricola Horsfield. The taxon represented by the nominal species Phaedra terricola Horsfield is currently considered subjectively on taxonomic grounds to represent the same taxon as that represented by the older-established nominal species Papilio thetys [sic] Drury, [1773] (Ill. nat. Hist. 2 : index et 16, pl. 9, figs 3, 4), as it was in the time of Kirby (1871) and Scudder (1875). Cowan (1968: 14) stated:- PHAEDRA, lines 6, 8, 10, 15: "thetys" should read; thetis Cowan (1968: 19) stated:- The oriental Lycaenid Papilio thetis Drury, 1773 (in his approved work on the Official List [Hemming, 1967]) should not be confused with the American Nymphalid Papilio thetys Fabricius, 1777, which latter happens also to be mentioned on this page (List [Hemming, 1967] : 355, lines 1, 2.). The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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