Graphium agetes agetes (Westwood, 1843)

Hu, Shao-Ji, Cotton, Adam M., Lamas, Gerardo, Duan, Kuang & Zhang, Xin, 2023, Checklist of Yunnan Papilionidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) with nomenclatural notes and descriptions of new subspecies, Zootaxa 5362 (1), pp. 1-69 : 19

22a. Graphium agetes agetes (Westwood, 1843)

Papilio agetes tenuilineatas Fruhstorfer, 1901 ; Soc. ent., 16 (12): 89; TL: ‘Xom-Gom, Şd-Annam’ [near Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan Province, S. Vietnam].

P. [apilio] agetes tenuilineatus Fruhstorfer, 1903; Berl. ent. Z., 47 (3/4): 199. [ISS]

Distribution: found in lowlands and river valleys in W., S., and S.E. Yunnan; also found in Indochina and N.E. India.

Note: Chou & Li (1994) described Pathysa agetes chinensis from Guangdong and Daweishan, S.E. Yunnan. Examination of the specimen from Daweishan deposited in the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, shows that it belongs to ssp. agetes , while the specimen from Guangdong illustrated in Chou (1994) is applicable to Graphium agetes hoenei ( Mell, 1923) . The original description of the new subspecies clearly indicated the characters of the specimen from Guangdong, which is illustrated as ‘ Pathysa agetes chinensis Chou et Li. ssp. nov. ’ in Fig. 8 on page 752 and with a red dot next to the photo of the same specimen, bottom left on page 173. However, the authors designated the Daweishan specimen (illustrated with a yellow dot on page 173) as holotype in the original description rather than the Guangdong specimen. Since the two specimens belong to different subspecies, we hereby invoke the First Reviser Principle to give priority to the characters stated in the original description over the specimen designated as the holotype. The illustration of the Guangdong specimen in Fig. 8 on page 752 and photograph of the same specimen on page 173 are thus treated as illustrations of the correct holotype of the taxon. The depository of this specimen is unknown. As a result, we hereby synonymise Pathysa agetes chinensis Chou and Li, 1994 with Graphium agetes hoenei ( Mell, 1923) syn. nov., rather than with the nominate subspecies. Graphium agetes hoenei does not occur anywhere in Yunnan, but is found in Guangdong and northern Guangxi.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Male genitalia of Byasa genestieri genestieri (Obertḩr, 1918) stat. nov. from Kunming, Yunnan, China.All: whole genitalia with right valve removed, R.: ring, V.: right valve, TSU: tegumen, socii, and uncus, Ae.: aedeagus, Ju.: juxta. Scale bar = 1 mm.