Papilio medusa, 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 : 327-328

MEDUSA CRAMER, 1777

Pap[ilio] Dan[aus] Cand[idus] medusa Cramer, 1777: 86 , 149, pl.150, fig. F [original plate 107, fig. B] (junior homonym of Papilio medusa Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 [ Satyrinae ]). ‘Côte de Bengale’ [error; West African].

Papilio Danaus Candidus medusa, Stoll, 1782b: 6 [No. 79].

Material examined. No potential Cramer specimens located.

Current status. Invalid senior synonym of Leptosia dorothea (Fabricius, 1793) . Cited as a valid species in Leptosia ( Bridges, 1988; Ackery et al., 1995), but is invalid as Papilio medusa Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 , preoccupies it.