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AMATHUSIA Fabricius, 1807, Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger) 6 : 279. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Papilio phidippus Linnaeus, 1763, Amoen. acad. 6 : 402. 



AMATHUXIDIA Staudinger, [1887], in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1, Th. 1 

 (17) : 188. Type-species by monotypy : Amathusia amythaon Doubleday, 1847, Ann. 

 Mag. nat. Hist. 19 : 175. 



AMAURA Geyer, [1837], in Hubner, Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 5 : 39. Type-species by 

 selection by Hemming (1943, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 23 : Danais phaedone Godart, 

 [1819], Ency. meth. 9 (1) (Ins.) : 183. 



Godart, when using the spelling " phaedone " in 181 9, gave a back reference to Fabricius, 

 1794, thus showing that he was not introducing a new name, but only an emendation of the 

 spelling " phoedon " used by Fabricius. The name Danais phaedone Godart is thus invalid 

 as an Unjustified Emendation of Papilio phoedon Fabricius, 1798 {Suppl. Ent. syst. : 423). 

 The latter is the oldest available name applicable to the present species. 



AMAURINA Aurivillius, 1910, in Sjostedt's Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. Bd 2, Abt. 9 : 2. 

 Type-species by selection by Bryk, 1937, Lep. Cat. 78 : 183 : Amauris ansorgei Sharpe, 

 1896, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 18 : 158. 



The name Amaurina Aurivillius is invalid as a junior homonym of Amaurina Kolbe, 

 1895 (Stett. ent. Ztg 56 : 285). It has been replaced by the name Panamanris Bryk, 1937. 



AMA URIS Hubner, [1816], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (1) 114. Type-species by selection byScudder 

 (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 108) : Papilio niavius Linnaeus, 1758, 

 Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 470. 



Hubner cited the specific name of the type-species as " Niavia " ; this is here treated as 

 having been due to Hubner considering the generic name Amauris to be feminine in gender, in 

 which case it would have been natural, if he considered the specific name to be an adjective, to 

 alter its termination from " -us " to " -a ". 



AMAXIDIA Staudinger, [1887], in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1, Th. 1 (17) : 

 188. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio aurelius Cramer, [1777], Uitl. Kapellen 2 (14) : 

 no, pi. 168, figs A, B. 



AMBLOPALA Leech, [1893], Butts China Japan Corea (2) (Text Pt 3) : 341. Type-species 

 by monotypy : Amblypodia avidiena Hewitson, 1877, Ent. mon. Mag. 14 : 108. 



AMBLYGONIA Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1865] in Reise Fregatte " Novara ", Lep.-Rhop. (2) : 

 308. Type-species by selection by Hemming (1943, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 29) : 

 Amblygonia amarynthina Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1865], ibid. (2) : 309. 



This generic name is invalid as a junior homonym of Amblygonia Herrich-Schaeffer, [1858] 

 (Samml. anssereurop. Schmett. Heteroc. 69, fig. 39). Luckily, the type-species of Amblygonia is 

 the type-species of Parcella Stichel, 1910, which, being an available name, replaces the 

 invalid name Amblygonia. 



AMBLYPODIA Horsfield, [1829], Descr. Cat. Lepid. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (2) : 98. Type- 

 species by selection by Boisduval (1870, Consid. Lepid. Guatemala : 14) : Thecla narada 

 Horsfield, [1828], Descr. Cat. lepid. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1) : explic. pi. 1, fig. 8. 



Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 108), who was an adherent of the 

 so-called " principle of elimination " sought incorrectly to set aside Boisduval's valid selection 

 of Thecla narada in 1870, arguing that that species was ineligible as type-species owing to a 

 " restriction " made by Westwood in [1852] (in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : 477) ; 

 Scudder thereupon sought to select Papilio apidanus Cramer, [1777] (Uit. Kapellen 2 (12) : 

 63, pi. 137, figs F, G). Many years later Riley (1922, Entomologist 55 : 25) advanced a new 

 argument in favour of Scudder's attempted selection of Papilio apidanus as the type-species of 

 this genus, pointing out that, when discussing (: in) his new nominal genus Amblypodia, 

 Horsfield had said (: 111) of the third of the five sections into which he divided that taxon, 

 that he considered the third as being " typical " of Amblypodia. From this Riley argued that 



