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Chilasa

Number: 5907.0
Author: Moore
Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/110504#page/166/mode/2up
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Chilasa
Journal: Lepid. Ceylon
Year: 1881
Homonym Count: 1.0
Page: 153
Part: (4)
Ref Id: 4031.0
Status: Available name
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Tribe: Papilionini
Volume: 1
Type Country: See BHL scanned Type-species page
Type Des: by original designation
Type Sp Author: Linnaeus
Type Sp Bhl Page: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/500/mode/2up
Type Sp Journal: Systema Naturae
Type Sp Page: 479
Type Sp Series: (Edn 10)
Type Sp Volume: 1
Type Sp Year: 1758
Type Sp Ref Id: 3527.0
Type Sp Genus: Papilio
Type Sp: dissimilis
Memo Links: ['http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=CHILASA', 'http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilionidae']
Memo: 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. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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Dataset buttmoth
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Resource Butterflies and Moths of the World
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