Candidus alcesta, STOLL, 1782

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 : 314

ALCESTA STOLL, 1782

Pap[ilio] Dan[aus] Cand[idus] alcesta Stoll, 1782a: 175 , pl.379, fig. A [original plate 365, fig. B]. ‘Côte de Guinée’ (E. de Marre).

Papilio Danaus Candidus alcesta, Stoll, 1782b: 6 [No. 88].

Material examined. No potential Stoll specimens located.

Current status. Valid species in Leptosia ( Ackery et al., 1995) .

ALCMEONE CRAMER, 1777

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Pap[ilio] Dan[aus] Cand[idus] alcmeone Cramer, 1777: 71 , 147, pl.141, fig. E [original plate 108, fig. D]. ‘Côte de Coromandel’ [= south-eastern India] and Surinam [error or a misidentification].

Papilio Danaus Candidus alcmeone, Stoll, 1782b: 5 [No. 17].

Material examined. Lectotype ♂ (here designated to stabilize use of this name) with van Lennep label ‘ No. 17 ALCMEONE Cr. II. 141 E.’ and Felder label ‘ Coll. Lenep’ ( BMNH (E)#665071) is a good match for original plate 108, fig. D; it has been re-pinned. A second ♂ (possibly a paralectotype) is discussed under ecclipsis below. There is also a possible paralectotype male in RNHL (G. Lamas, pers. comm.).

Current status. Here considered a junior subjective synonym of Catopsilia p. pomona (Fabricius, 1775) (following Yata, 1981). Bridges (1988) lists it as a junior synonym of the Neotropical species Aphrissa statira ( Cramer, 1777) [in Phoebis (Aphrissa) ] but notes that it may belong with the Oriental Catopsilia crocale ( Cramer, 1775) [= C. pomona Fabricius ]. Males of these two species can be quite similar, but the above lectotype belongs with Catopsilia p. pomona Fabricius. The second ♂ (possibly a paralectotype) is identifiable with Aphrissa statira (Cramer) . The possible paralectotype male in RNHL belongs with A. statira (G. Lamas, pers. comm.).

Figures

Figures 21–26. Fig. 21. Papilio torquatus Cramer (syntype). Fig. 22. Papilio tullus Cramer (syntype). Fig. 23. Papilio vertumnus Cramer (syntype). Fig. 24. Papilio alcmeone Cramer (lectotype). Fig. 25. Papilio arithusa Drury (specimen with ‘van Lennep’ label). Fig. 26. Papilio cipris Cramer (syntype).