Biblidinae, Boisduval, 1833

Bland, Keith P., 2019, Name-bearing types of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea), in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 4559 (1), pp. 57-89 : 70

Biblidinae

Biblis THADANA Godart, in Latreille & Godart, 1819

Encyclopédie Méthodique Histoire Naturelle [Zoologie] 9. Entomologie i–328 [326]. Junior subjective synonym of Biblis hyperia hyperia (Cramer, 1779) (see D’Abrera, 1987b; Lamas, 2004).

Syntype, female, pinned: Specimen data: “théodora. encyc” [Handwritten (by Godart) on coarse creamy paper]. “Dufresne” [Printed] on verso “ Biblis | Tadana [sic] | 1” [Handwritten]. “TYPE” [Handwritten on oval pink label]. “Dufresne | 1936-50 | 46” on verso “Didonis biblis Fab. |?CO-TYPE of | Biblis thadana | Godart” [Handwritten (by Grimshaw) on mauve paper]. Remarks: The Dufresne collection catalogue indicates that 3 specimens (incorrectly entered as “Tadana” in the catalogue) were present at the time Godart studied the collection. The above specimen is certainly one of these specimens and so is part of the type series. Two further specimens on contemporary pins but no provenance labels are presumably from the Dufresne collection and have been labelled “?Dufresne | 1936-50 | 47 (and 48) on verso “Didonis biblis Fab. |?CO-TYPE of | Biblis thadana | Godart” by Grimshaw. As there is some uncertainty they have been excluded from the syntype series. The type locality is given as “au Brésil & dans l’île Saint-Thomas [ Brazil and the Island of St. Thomas ( Virgin Islands)]. Godart seems to have changed his mind on the name of this species between labelling the specimen “théodora” and describing it in the Encylopedie as “thadana”. (See also Danais CLEOPHILE .)