Genus Amerila Walker, 1855

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• Amerila Walker, F. 1855. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 3: 583-775 [725].

  Type species:

   Sphinx astreus Drury, 1773 ({India]: Bengal) by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1900. The moths of South Africa (Part I). Annals of the South African Museum 2: 33-66 [60].
• Canopus Walker, F. 1855. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 3: 583-775 [747] [junior homonym; Canopus Fabricius, 1803].

  Type species:

   Canopus bubo Walker, 1855 ([Zaire]: Congo) by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1900. The moths of South Africa (Part I). Annals of the South African Museum 2: 33-66 [60].
• Phryganeomorpha Wallengren, H.D.J. 1858. Nya fjäril-slägten. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 15: 75-84, 135-143, 209-215 [214].

  Type species:

   Chelonia madagascariensis Boisduval, 1847 (Madagascar) by original designation.
• Amblythyris Mabille, P. 1879. Lepidoptera Madagascariensia; species novae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 7 3: 132-144 [137].

  Type species:

   Amblythyris radama Mabille, 1879 (Madagascar) by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1900. The moths of South Africa (Part I). Annals of the South African Museum 2: 33-66 [60, 61] (cited as Aganais vitripennis blanchard, 1861, a nominal species not originally included in Amblythyris. Hampson, on page 61, placed vitripennis as the senior synonym of radama, a nominal species originally included in Amblythyris. Under Code, Article 69(a)(iv), this designation constitutes the fixation of the originally included nominal species as the type-species).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watson, A. in Watson, A., Fletcher, D.S. & Nye, I.W.B. 1980. Noctuioidea (part): Arctiidae, Cocytiidae, Ctenuchidae, Dilobidae, Dioptidae, Lymantriidae, Notodontidae, Strepsimanidae, Thaumetopoeidae, Thyretidae. pp. in Nye, I.W.B. (ed.). The Generic Names of Moths of the World. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 xiv+228 pp., frontispiece. [8]

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