Zerynthia | |
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Zerynthia specimens | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Tribe: | Zerynthiini |
Genus: | Zerynthia Ochsenheimer, 1816 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
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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.
Zerynthia consists of the following species:[1]
Eggs | Caterpillar | Butterfly | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Zerynthia polyxena - (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)[2] | southern Europe (southeastern France, Italy, Slovakia and Greece) covering all the Balkans and reaching the south of Kazakhstan and the Urals. | |||
Zerynthia rumina - (Linnaeus, 1758)[3] | North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. |
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)