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Papilionidae 77a0372 – 4175.1   Heraclides caiguanabus (Poey, 1852)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: caiguanabus (Poey, 1852) (Papilio) STRAY numicus (Hopffer, 1856) (Papilio) Taxonomic Notes: Heraclides caiguanabus (Poey, 1852) is now recognized within the North American fauna, recorded from FL by Calhoun & Kolterman (2018), News Lepid. Soc. 60(2): 84-87. The genus name Heraclides was treated as a synonym of Papilio in Hodges et al. (1983) (Checklist). Pelham (in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023) treated Heraclides a valid genus following Zhang et al. (2019) and several previous authors, notably Miller & Brown (1981). Condamine et al. (2023), a work published after the cutoff for additions to Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023), recognized Heraclides as a subgenus of Papilio.

References

Condamine, F.L., R. Allio, E. L. Reboud, J.R. Dupuis, E.F.A. Toussaint, N. Mazet, S-J. Hu, D.S. Lewis, K. Kunte, A.M. Cotton, F.A.H. Sperling, 2023. A comprehensive phylogeny and revised taxonomy illuminate the origin and diversification of the global radiation of Papilio (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 183: 1-22.

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