Genus Leptosia Hübner, 1818
- Leptosia Hübner, J. 1818. Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmettlinge. Augsburg : Hübner 32 pp. 40 pls. [13].
Type species:
Leptosia chlorographa Hübner, 1818 by subsequent designation, see Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. A contribution to systematic nomenclature. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 91-293 [204, 205] (selected as type species Leptosia chlorographa Hübner which was consistent with the species included by Hübner in Leptosia in the Zutrage; he referred to an earlier incorrect designation of Leptosia lathyri Hübner (a junior objective synonym of Papilio sinapis Linnaeus as the type species by <0455> [54] selection of lathyri is invalid because the species was not included in the Zutrage but was included in the Verzeichniss which was published later than the Zutrage) (Leptosia chlorographa is a junior subjective synonym of Papilio nina Fabricius, 1793; (Hemming, F., 1967) (253) (discussed status of type species); (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1960) (290) (included Papilio nina Fabricius, 1793 as a name placed on the Official List of Specific Names, Name No. 1709, and included Leptosia Hübner, 1818, with type species Leptosia chlorographa Hübner, 1818 selected by Butler, (1870), as a name placed on the Official List of Generic Names, Name No. 1398)). - Nina Horsfield, T. 1829. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects contained in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company, illustrated by coloured figures of new species and of the metamorphosis of Indian Lepidoptera, with introductory observations on a general arrangement of this order of insects. London : Parbury, Allen and Co. Pt 2 Vol. 2 81-144 pp., 5-8 pls. [publication date: Corbet, A.S. 1939. The date of Thomas Horsfield's "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects Contained in the Museum of the Honourable East India Company". Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1(7): 196 [196]] [140] [junior objective synonym of Leptosia Hübner, 1818].
Type species:
Papilio nina Fabricius, 1793 by absolute tautonymy. - Nychitona Butler, A.G. 1870. A revision of the genera of the subfamily Pierinae. Cistula Entomologica 1(3): 33-58 pls 1-4 [34] [name introduced on p. 34, described on p. 41].
Type species:
Papilio dorothea Fabricius, 1793 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Talbot, G. 1935. Familia Pieridae III. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 66 pp. 385–697. [639]
- Edwards, E.D. 1996. Pieridae. pp. 240-242, 358-359 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [241]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
Extra Distribution Information
In the Australian Region occurs in the Lesser Sunda Ils.
IBRA
NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N coastal
Oriental Region
General References
Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [253]
Yata, O. 1985. Part 1 : Pieridae. pp. 206-438 in Tsukada, E. (ed.). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. II. Japan : Plapac 1-623 pls 1-162. [297] (description, distribution)
History of changes
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