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AGANISTHOS Boisduval & Leconte, [1834], Hist, lipid. Amdr. sept. : 194. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Papilio orion Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Ent. : 485. 



The name Papilio orion Fabricius, 1775, is invalid as a junior homonym of Papilio orion 

 Pallas, 1 77 1 {Reise russisch. Provs 1 : 471). The oldest nomenclatorially available name 

 subjectively applicable to the present taxon is, Papilio odius Fabricius, 1775 (Syst. Ent. : 457). 



AGANISTHUS Kirby, 1894, in Allen's Nat. Libr., Lepid. 1, Butts 1 : 175 (an Incorrect 

 Subsequent Spelling of Aganisthos Boisduval & Leconte, [1834]). 



AGANISTOS Boisduval, 1870, Consid. Lipid. Guatemala : 53 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling 

 of Aganisthos Boisduval & Leconte, [1834]). 



AGAPETES Billberg, 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. : 78. Type-species by selection by Scudder 

 (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 104) : Papilio galathea Linnaeus, 1758, 

 Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 474. 



Although it was a senior objective synonym of Melanargia Meigen, 1828, the name Agapetes 

 Billberg was almost completely ignored, the name Melanargia Meigen being firmly entrenched 

 in general usage. Accordingly, in order to avoid the confusion and name-changing which 

 would have resulted from the application of the Law of Priority in this case, that is, if the 

 virtually unknown name Agapetes Billberg had been substituted for the well-known name 

 Melanargia Meigen, the Commission gave a Ruling in its Opinion 400 published in 1956 

 (Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 12 : 419-432), suppressing the name Agapetes Billberg under 

 its Plenary Powers for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of the Law 

 of Homonymy, at the same time placing that name on the Official Index of Rejected and 

 Invalid Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 417. By this action a secure nomenclatorial 

 status was assured to the name Melanargia Meigen. 



AGARA Mabille & Boullet, 1908, Ann. Sci. nat., Zool. (9) 7 : 172, 204. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Tamyris pardalina Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1867], Reise Fregatta " Novara " , 

 Lep.-Rhop. (3) : 507, pi. 70, figs 5, 6. 



AGATASA Moore, [1899], Lep. ind. 4 (42) : 127. Type-species by original designation : 

 Nymphalis calydonia Hewitson, [1855], ///. exot. Butts 1 : [86], pi. [43], figs 3, 4. 



AGATHINA White, 1843, Zoologist 1 : 29. Type-species by original designation : Erycina 

 margaretta White, 1843, Zoologist 1 : 28. 



The taxon Agathina White was established as a subgenus of the genus Erycina Fabricius, 

 1807, and White designated as its type-species the nominal species which (as shown above) 

 he had established on the immediately preceding page as a species of the genus Erycina with 

 the name Erycina margaretta. 



The name Agathina White is invalid, as being a junior homonym of the name Agathina 

 Ferussac, 1807 (Essai Mithode conch. : 49), and of Agathina Rafinesque, 1831 (Enum. obj. 

 Cab. : 3). 



AGATHYMUS Freeman, 1959, Lepid. News 12 (3/4) : 82. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Megathymus neumoegeni Edwards, 1882, Papilio 2 : 27. 



AGEHANA Matsumura, 1936, Ins. matsumur. 10 (3) : 86. Type-species by original designa- 

 tion : Papilio maraho Shiraki & Sonan, 1934, Zephyrus 5 (4) : 177. 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio maraho Shiraki & Sonan is currently 

 treated on taxonomic grounds as a subspecies of the taxon represented by the nominal species 

 Papilio elwesi Leech, 1889 (Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1889 : 113, pi. 7, fig. 1 o*)- 



AGERONIA Hubner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (3) : 42. Type-species by selection by 

 Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 104) : Papilio chloe Stoll, [1787], 

 Aanhangs. Werk. Uitl. Kapellen Pieter Cramer : 22, pi. 5, fig. 1. 



AGLAIS Dalman, 1816, K. svenska Vetensk-Akad. Handl., Stockholm 1816 (1) : 56. Type- 

 species by original designation : Papilio urticae Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 477. 

 It is of interest to note that in this paper Dalman was the first author to introduce in the 



