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.
North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and southern France.
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 ParnaliusRafinesque, 1815 published as a replacement name for the preoccupied ThaisFabricius 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)
AllancastriaBryk, 1934 (Parnassiana 2: 104) type cerisyiGodart by monotypy: synonymised by Ackery, 1975. NOTE: subsequent researchers have typically not considered Allancastria to be a synonym, and treat it either as a valid genus (e.g. [9][10]) or as a valid subgenus within Zerynthia (e.g. [11]).
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^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
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^Sala, G., Bollino, M. (1994) Allancastria cerisyi Godart, 1822 in the Balkans: new subspecies and critical notes on the existing populations (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Atalanta (Würzburg) 25: 151-160