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| Figures E and F, Papilio alphaeus , the type species of this genus, from Cramer and Stoll's De Uitlandsche Kapellen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Tribe: | Deudorigini |
| Genus: | Capys Hewitson, [1865] |
| Type species | |
| Papilio alphaeusCramer, 1777 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Capys is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Afrotropical realm.
In 1819, Jacob Hübner published the generic name Scoptes, including three species but without designating a type. [1] The generic name was more or less forgotten afterwards. [2] In 1966, Norman Denbigh Riley, for practical reasons, selected Papilio alphaeus Cramer, 1777, as the type species of Scoptes, by which Scoptes became an objective synonym of Capys, and started a case to suppress the name Scoptes for purposes of priority. [2] In 1986, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature suppressed the name Scoptes (for the principle of priority not principle of homonymy) in order to conserve the name Capys Hewitson. [3]
Arthur Francis Hemming, CMG, CBE was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was mostly known, both professionally and socially, by his middle-name as Francis Hemming.
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