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LEECHIA Tutt, [15th May 1907], Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts 2 : 142. Type-species by original 

 designation : Thecla thalia Leech, [1893], Butts China Japan Corea (2) (text-part 3) : 367 ; 

 (plate-part 3/4) : pi. 30, fig. 15 <J. 



The name Leechia Tutt is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Leechia South, 1901 (Trans, 

 ent. Soc. Lond. 1901 : 400). It has been replaced by the name Strymonidia Tutt, [1908]. 



/ / / ( II I A W fiber, [4th June 1907], in Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde 1 : 43. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Davidina alticola Rober, [1907], in Seitz, ibid. 1 : 43, pi. 19 figs. B [2], b [3]. 



Rober (is noted above) describe;! the type-species as belonging to the genus Davidina 

 Oberthur, 1879 ; he added however that it might later be found necessary to place Davidina 

 alticola in a separate genus. It was against this ( ontingency that he then introduced the name 

 Leechia conditionally. The name Leechia Rober is invalid, .is it is a junior homonym of the 

 names Leechia South, igoi, and Leechia Tutt, May 1907], discussed immediately above. 



LEHERA Moore, [1884], Proc. zool. Soc. Limit. 1883 (4) : 528. Type-species through Section 

 (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Papilio amvntor Ilcrbst, 1804, in Jablonsky, Xatitr- 

 syst. Ins., Schmett. 11 : 27, pi. 300, figs 5, 6 $. 



Moore introduced the name Lehera as a replacement lor the name Artipe I.oisduval, 1870, 

 which he erroneously supposed was invalid under the Law of Homonymy. The name which 

 Moore supposed was .1 senior homonym of Artipc Boisduval was Artipus Schoenherr, 1823, 



but under \rtii le 57(d) (( >ne -let ter-diltercnce) these names do not rank as homonyms ol one 



another. The replacement name Lehera w.i^ therefore unnecessary and is invalid as a junior 



i>l>]< ' 1 1 \ 1 ■ synonym of Artipe Boisduval. 



As a replacement for Artipe Boisduval, Lehera Moore automatically takes as its type- 

 species the spei ies which is the type I . \ilipr, namely Papilio annular I [erbsl Moore, 

 no doubt, realized this, but in accordance with a practice current at the time he considered it 

 legitimate in a case such as the present to cite as the type-species not the nominal species 

 which was the actual type-species of the genus replaced but the nominal sp© ies bearing the 

 oldest available name subjectively identified with the true type-species. What Moore did in 

 the present case was therefore to designate as the type-species of Lehera the nominal species 

 Papilio eryx Linnaeus, 1771 (Mantissa Plant : 537), the taxon represented by which was 

 then and is still — treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that 

 represented by the later-established nominal species J'upili" atnyntor rlerbst, 1804, the type- 

 species of Artipe Boisduval. 

 LEILUS Swainson, [1833], Zool. Itlust. (1) 3 (part 27) : pis 125, 126 ; ibid. (2) 2 (part 28) : 



pi. 12<), 130. 



When establishing this genus, Swainson regarded the included species as a group of butter- 

 flies of the family Papilionidae, but in fact all four of the species concerned are moths. 



One of the included species was Lcilus surinamensis Swainson (figured on plate 125), a 

 replacement name then introduced entirely unnecessarily for the older-established nominal 

 species Papilio leilus Linnaeus, 1758. As Swainson did not design ite a type-species for his 

 genus Leilus, this species is automatically the type-species by tautonymy (Article 68(d)). 

 LELECELLA Hemming, 1939, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 8 : 39. Type-species through 

 Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 : Zanessa limenitoides Oberthur, 1890, 

 lltud. ent. 13 : 39, pi. 9, fig. 96. 



The name Lelecella was introduced as a replacement for Lelex de Niceville, 1900, which is 

 invalid under the Law of Homonymy. 

 LELEX de Niceville, 1900, /. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt 11, 68 (3) : 234. Type-species by original 

 designation : Vanessa limenitoides Oberthur, 1890, Etud. ent. 13 : 39, pi. 9, fig. 96. 



The name Lelex de Niceville is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Lelex Rafinesque, 1815 

 (Analyse Nature : 108). 

 LEMONIAS Hubner, [1806], Tentamen : [1]. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio maturna 

 Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 480. 



The name Lemonias, as of the Tentamen, is invalid, because by the Ruling given by the 



