Zerynthia

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Zerynthia
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Zerynthia specimens
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Tribe: Zerynthiini
Genus: Zerynthia
Ochsenheimer, 1816
Species

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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.

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Species

Zerynthia consists of the following species: [1]

EggsCaterpillarButterflyScientific nameDistribution
DianeoeufsJLH.jpg Zerynthia polyxena 13.2.jpg Zerynthia cassandra.jpg 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.
ProserpineoeufsJLH.jpg Spanish Festoon Caterpillar (Zerynthia rumina) 01.jpg Zerinthya rumina P6059652.jpg Zerynthia rumina - (Linnaeus, 1758) [3] 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 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

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References

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  2. [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.
  3. 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].
  4. Kuhna, P. 1977 Über Allancastria in Kleinasien (Lep. Papilionidae). Atalanta 8 (2): 99-107 (11 figs .).
  5. Koçak,A.Ö., 1975, New Lepidoptera from Turkey-II. Atalanta 6 (1): 50-55, 10 figs.7.
  6. Koçak,A.Ö., 1977, New Lepidoptera from Turkey V. Atalanta 7 (2): 126-146, 47 Abb, 1 map.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
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  10. Nazari, V., Zakharov, E.V., and Sperling, F.A.H., 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular phylogenetics and Evolution, 42: 131-156 Archived June 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in English)
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