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Papilionidae 77a0391 – 4178.2   Pterourus victorinus (Doubleday, 1844)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: • Papilio victorinus Doubleday, 1844 • Papilio amphissus Hopffer, 1866 • Papilio eritromaculata Beutelspacher, 1976 • Papilio helleri Felder & Felder, [1865] • Calaides menatius of authors not Hübner, [1819] Taxonomic Notes: Pterourus victorinus (Doubleday, 1844) was formerly placed in the genus Papilio. The name Pterourus was treated as a valid genus in Miller & Brown (1981) and as a synonym of Papilio in Hodges et al. (1983) (Checklist). Subsequent authors, i. e. Tyler et al. (1994), Lamas (2004) and Shiraiwa & Grishin (2014), have retained Pterourus as valid.

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: Some specimens shown may not be sequenced. DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness not proof of identification. Species Page at the Butterflies of America

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