Species Problepsis apollinaria (Guenée, 1857)

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• Argyris apollinaria apollinaria Guenée, A. in Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds) 1857. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 10(2) 584 pp. [555 in index] (as appollinaria P. 13).

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Borneo.
• Argyris appollinaria; Guenée, A. in Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds) 1857. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 10(2) 584 pp. [13] [subsequent misspelling].
• Problepsis argentifila Prout, L.B. 1934. Title unknown. Lepidopterorum Catalogus (61-63) [subjective synonym; unavailable published synonym].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Prout, L.B. 1938. Title unknown. In, Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Macrolepidoptera of the Indo-Australian Fauna. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag Vol. 12. [18]

General References

McQuillan, P.B. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Geometridae. pp. 200-228 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. [222] (Note #339: Problepsis apollinaria (Guenée, 1857) was also spelled P. appollinaria (Guenée) in the original publication. Meyrick (1888) used P. apollinaria (Guenée) but does not mention the alternative spelling. L.B. Prout (1938: 18) mentions both original spellings and chose P. apoifinaria (Guenée) and should he regarded as the first reviser)

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