Doxocopa agathina, CRAMER, 1779

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00184.x
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7118C352-FFED-FFBA-FEEB-FF4EFEA0FC95
treatment provided by	Diego
scientific name	Doxocopa agathina
status

Treatment

AGATHINA CRAMER, 1779 View in CoL

Pap[ilio] Dan[aus] Cand[idus] agathina Cramer, 1779: 76 , 173, pl.237, figs D, E [original plate 206, figs B, B] (junior homonym of Papilio agathina Cramer, 1777 [ Nymphalidae ]). ‘Batavia’ [error, African] (E.F.Alberti).

Papilio View in CoL Danaus View in CoL Candidus agathina, Stoll, 1782b: 5 [No. 48].

Material examined. No potential Cramer specimens located.

Current status. Currently treated as a valid species in Mylothris (e.g. Ackery et al., 1995), but is preoccupied by Cramer (1777). Unfortunately, both this species and Doxocopa agathina ( Cramer, 1777) are wellknown taxa and it is recommended that an application to ICZN should be made for the name to be conserved. The next available name is Mylothris xantholeuca Hübner, [1819] .