Zerynthia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Papilionidae
Subfamilia: Parnassiinae
Tribus: Luehdorfiini
Genus: Zerynthia
Subgenera: Z. (Allancastria) - Z. (Zerynthia)
Name
Zerynthia Ochsenheimer, 1816

Zerynthia is a genus of swallowtail butterflies placed in the subfamily Parnassiinae. The genus has a complex history; a multiplicity of names have been applied to its species.

Species

Zerynthia consists of the following species:[1]

Zerynthia caucasica - (Lederer, 1864)
Zerynthia polyxena - (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)[2]
Zerynthia rumina - (Linnaeus, 1758)[3]

Zerynthia polyxena
Taxonomy

See Ackery (1975), Larsen (1973), Kuhna (1977) [4] Kocak (1975, 1977) [5][6] , de Freina (1979) [7] Vazrick Nazari and Felix A. H. Sperling (2007).[8] Ackery (1975) pointed out that Zerynthia is a junior synonym of Parnalius Rafinesque, 1815 published as a replacement name for the preoccupied Thais Fabricius and moreover correctly listed by Sherborne (1929) Neave (1940) and Cowan (1970). Parnalius has subsequently been suppressed cf. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 36 (1979): 102)
Synonymy

Zerynthia Ochsenheimer, 1816
Thais Fabricius, 1807 (Systema glossatorum: XI): typus moneat.; junior homonym of Thais Roding, 1789.
Thais Fabricius, 1807 (Mag. fur Insektenkunde 6: 283) type Papilio hypsiphyle Fabricius by monotypy.
Parnalius Rafinesque, 1815 (Analyse Nat.: 128) type by Art. 67 (1): Papilio hypsiphyle Fabricius.
Zerynthia Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Schmett. Europ. 4: 128) type polyxena Schiff, selected by Scudder; n.n. pro Thais Fabricius. subspecies polyxena, medisicaste, rumina.
Eugraphis (Dalman i.l.) Billberg, 1820 (Ennum. Ins.: 75) type hypsiphyle Fabricius by monotypy.
Zerinthia Sodovsky, 1837 (Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 1834 (10): 82: nom. emend. pro Zerynthia Ochs.
Cerynthia Staudinger, 1861 (Staudinger and Wocke: Cat. Lep. Europ. (1): 1: nom. emend.
Zerynthyia Zerny, 1927 (Eos, Madrid 3: 313): nom. emend.
Thays Rocci, 1928 (Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital. 10: 55): nom. emend.
Allancastria Bryk, 1934 (Parnassiana 2: 104) type cerisyi Godart by monotypy: synonymised by Ackery, 1975.

References

Catalogue of Life:2009; Geraadpleegd op 20-11-2009[permanent dead link]
[Denis, J. N. C. M. & Schiffermüller, I.] (1775) Ankündung [sic] eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend. [frontispiece], [title page], 323 pp., Augustin Bernardi, Wien.
Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Vol. 1 (Animalia), Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm].
Kuhna, P. 1977 Über Allancastria in Kleinasien (Lep. Papilionidae). Atalanta 8 (2): 99-107 (11 figs .).
Koçak,A.Ö., 1975, New Lepidoptera from Turkey-II. Atalanta 6 (1): 50-55, 10 figs.7.
Koçak,A.Ö., 1977, New Lepidoptera from Turkey V. Atalanta 7 (2): 126-146, 47 Abb, 1 map.
De Freina, J.J. (1979) Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Allan-castria unter Berücksichtigung der Arten A. cerisyund A. deyrollei (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 89: 129-142.
Vazrick Nazari and Felix A. H. Sperling, 2007 Mitochondrial DNA divergence and phylogeography in western Palaearctic Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae): How many species are there? Insect systematics & evolution 38(2):121-138 · April 2007 Download Available from Researchgate