Checklist of Yunnan Papilionidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) with nomenclatural notes and descriptions of new subspecies
Author
Hu, Shao-Ji
Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China & Yunnan Key Laboratory of International Rivers and Transboundary Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China
Author
Cotton, Adam M.
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86 / 2 Moo 5, Tambon Nong Kwai, Hang Dong, Chiang Mai, Thailand https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4852 - 903 X
Author
Lamas, Gerardo
0000-0002-3664-6730
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Apartado 14 - 0434, Lima- 14, Peru https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3664 - 6730
Author
Duan, Kuang
0000-0003-1123-8631
School of Agriculture, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1123 - 8631
Author
Zhang, Xin
0000-0002-4638-3997
Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China & Kunming Youning Biotech Co., Ltd, Kunming, 650031, China https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4638 - 3997 Corresponding author: shaojihu @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1615 - 9601 & Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China
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22a.
Graphium agetes agetes
(Westwood, 1843)
Papilio agetes tenuilineatas
Fruhstorfer, 1901
; Soc. ent., 16 (12): 89; TL: ‘Xom-Gom, S ü d-Annam’ [near Phan Rang,
Ninh Thuan Province
, S.
Vietnam
].
P.
[
apilio
]
agetes
tenuilineatus
Fruhstorfer, 1903
; Berl. ent. Z., 47 (3/4): 199. [ISS]
Distribution:
found in lowlands and river valleys in W., S., and S.E. Yunnan; also found in Indochina and N.E.
India
.
Note:
Chou & Li (1994)
described
Pathysa agetes chinensis
from
Guangdong
and Daweishan, S.E.
Yunnan
. Examination of the specimen from Daweishan deposited in the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, shows that it belongs to
ssp.
agetes
, while the specimen from
Guangdong
illustrated in
Chou (1994)
is applicable to
Graphium agetes hoenei
(
Mell, 1923
)
. The original description of the new subspecies clearly indicated the characters of the specimen from
Guangdong
, which is illustrated as ‘
Pathysa agetes chinensis
Chou et Li.
ssp. nov.
’ in
Fig. 8
on page 752 and with a red dot next to the photo of the same specimen, bottom left on page 173. However, the authors designated the Daweishan specimen (illustrated with a yellow dot on page 173) as
holotype
in the original description rather than the
Guangdong
specimen. Since the
two specimens
belong to different subspecies, we hereby invoke the First Reviser Principle to give priority to the characters stated in the original description over the specimen designated as the
holotype
. The illustration of the
Guangdong
specimen in
Fig. 8
on page 752 and photograph of the same specimen on page 173 are thus treated as illustrations of the correct
holotype
of the taxon. The depository of this specimen is unknown. As a result, we hereby synonymise
Pathysa agetes chinensis
Chou and Li, 1994
with
Graphium agetes hoenei
(
Mell, 1923
)
syn. nov.
, rather than with the nominate subspecies.
Graphium agetes hoenei
does not occur anywhere in
Yunnan
, but is found in
Guangdong
and northern
Guangxi
.