Zerynthia
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.
Species
Zerynthia consists of the following species:| Eggs | Caterpillar | Butterfly | Scientific name | Distribution |
| Zerynthia polyxena - | southern Europe covering all the Balkans and reaching the south of Kazakhstan and the Urals. | |||
| Zerynthia rumina - | North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. |
Taxonomy
See Ackery, Larsen, Kuhna Kocak, de Freina
Vazrick Nazari and Felix A. H. Sperling.
Ackery 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 Neave and Cowan. Parnalius has subsequently been suppressed cf. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 36
Synonymy
- Zerynthia Ochsenheimer, 1816
- Thais Fabricius, 1807 : typus moneat.; junior homonym of Thais Roding, 1789.
- Thais Fabricius, 1807 type Papilio hypsiphyle Fabricius by monotypy.
- Parnalius Rafinesque, 1815 type by Art. 67 : Papilio hypsiphyle Fabricius.
- Zerynthia Ochsenheimer, 1816 type polyxena Schiff, selected by Scudder; n.n. pro Thais Fabricius. subspecies polyxena, medisicaste, rumina.
- Eugraphis Billberg, 1820 type hypsiphyle Fabricius by monotypy.
- Zerinthia Sodovsky, 1837 : 82: nom. emend. pro Zerynthia Ochs.
- Cerynthia Staudinger, 1861 : 1: nom. emend.
- Zerynthyia Zerny, 1927 : nom. emend.
- Thays Rocci, 1928 : nom. emend.
- Allancastria Bryk, 1934 type cerisyi Godart by monotypy: synonymised by Ackery, 1975. NOTE: subsequent researchers have typically not considered Allancastria to be a synonym, and treat it either as a valid genus or as a valid subgenus within Zerynthia.