Graphium chironides chironides ( Honrath, 1884 )

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 : 21-22

27a. Graphium chironides chironides ( Honrath, 1884)

Papilio chiron Wallace, 1865 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 25 (1): 66, note; TL: ‘ Assam, Sylhet’ [JH of Papilio chiron Fabricius, 1775 ( Nymphalidae ) and Papilio chiron Rottemburg, 1775 ( Lycaenidae )].

[ Graphium clanis ] chironicum Eliot, 1982 [unnecessary replacement name]; Malay. nat. J., 35 (1–2): 180.

Arisbe chironides punctatus Page & Treadaway, 2014 ; Stutt. Beitr. Naturk. A (NS), 7: 279; TL: ‘Mt.

Phupien Kaxieng, Danchung [sic] district, Xekong Prefecture, Laos’. syn. nov.

Distribution: found in lowlands and river valleys in W., S., N.E., and S.E. Yunnan; widely distributed in S. China, also found from Nepal to Myanmar and Indochina.

Note: Page & Treadaway (2014) described punctatus and treated it as the valid subspecies from ‘Laos , Thailand, Vietnam. Probably also in Cambodia’, separating these populations from nominate chironides . They stated that the range of the nominate subspecies is ‘ China (Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), India (Sikkim, Meghalaya, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland)’. However, punctatus is indistinguishable from chironides , as the characters stated by Page & Treadaway commonly occur further west, and it is synonymised here. The type locality of punctatus is correctly in Dak Cheung, southern Laos, not ‘Danchung’.