Trojanus helena, LINNAEUS OF CRAMER, 1777

Chainey, John E., 2005, The species of Papilionidae and Pieridae (Lepidoptera) described by Cramer and Stoll and their putative type material in the Natural History Museum in London, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3), pp. 283-337 : 302

HELENA LINNAEUS OF CRAMER, 1777

Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] helena, Cramer, 1777: 66 , 149, pl.140, figs A, B [original plate 106, A, A]. ‘Isle d’Amboine’ [= Indonesia, Ambon]. Cramer states that there was also a male in the collection of Baron Rengers ‘qui est presque d’un tiers plus petit que la Femelle que nous reprèsentons ici’ [which is nearly a third smaller than the female which we represent here]). The figure actually represents a male.

Papilio Eques Trojanus helena, Stoll, 1782b: 2 [No. 2].

Material examined. 1 ♂, with van Lennep label ‘ No. 2. HELENA Cr. II. 140. A. B.’ and Felder label ‘ Coll. Lenep Orig’ ( BMNH (E)#665103) is a good match for original plate 106, figs A, A; it has the remains of an earlier ‘pin’ (a thorn), there are minor repairs to the wings and some spots of paint .

Identity. Troides (Troides) o. oblongomaculatus (Goeze, 1779).