Papilio arcas, 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 : 297

ARCAS STOLL, 1782

Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Achiv[us] arcas Stoll, 1782a: 174 , 247, pl.378, fig. C [original plate 353, fig. B] (junior homonym of Papilio arcas Drury, 1773 [ Hesperiidae ]). Brazil (‘Raye de Breukelerwaert’).

Papilio Eques Trojanus arcas, Stoll, 1782b: 2 [No. 40].

Material examined. No potential Stoll specimens located.

Remarks. Miller & Brown (1981), state that the ‘ Type may be in BM or lost’. Some Raye van Breukelerwaert material is in RNHL ( Smit et al., 1986).

Current status. Invalid senior subjective synonym of Parides eurimedes (Stoll (1782) ( Häuser et al., 2003) [ Tyler et al., 1994; attrib. to Cramer].