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established nominal species Pithecops zalmora Butler, 1869 (Cat. diurn. Lep. Fabricius Brit. 

 Mus. : 161). 



The fact that it was on 30th June 1884 that the name Pavapithecops Moore was published 

 is important, for that name is currently considered to be a subjective synonym of Neopithecops 

 Distant, published on 31st May of that year. 



PARAPLESIA Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862, Wien. ent. Monats. 6 : 26. Type-species by 

 monotypy : Paraplesia adelma Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1862, ibid. 6 : 26. 



Paraplesia is an available name, the two Felders having been in error when they supposed 

 it to be invalid under the Law of Homonymy and in 1863 introduced the replacement name 

 Isodema. 



PARAPONTIA Rober, [1892], in Schatz, in Staudinger & Schatz, Exot. Schmett. Bd 1 (Th. 2) 

 (6) : 280. Type-species by monotypy : Liptena undularis Hewitson, [1866], ///. exot. Butts 

 3 : [120], pi. [60], fig. 7. 



The history of the name Parapontia Rober is bound up with that of the earlier names 

 Liptena Westwood and Pentila Westwood, both published in the year 1851. Both these 

 nominal genera were treated from the earliest times as having as their type-species species 

 other than those which were in fact their type-species under the Code. Full particulars of 

 subsequent developments have been given in the note on the name Liptena Westwood ; it 

 is therefore necessary to note here that, when providing a valid basis for the long-established 

 use of that name the Commission in its Opinion 566 used its Plenary Powers to designate the 

 nominal species Liptena undularis Hewitson to be the type-species of the foregoing genus. 

 One of the side-effects of that decision was to invalidate the little-known and virtually unused 

 name Parapontia Rober by making it a junior objective synonym of Liptena Westwood, as 

 then stabilized. As part of the general settlement carried out in the above Opinion, the name 

 Parapontia Rober was then placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names 

 in Zoology as Name No. 1280. 



PARAPTERONYMIA Kremky, 1925, Ann. zool. Mus. polon. Hist. nat. 4 : 238. Type-species 

 by monotypy : Ithomia antisao Bates, 1862, Trans, linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (3) : 544. 



PARARGA Herrich-Schaeffer, [1844], Syst. Bearb. Schmett. Europ. 1 : 87 (an Incorrect Sub- 

 sequent Spelling of Pararge Hiibner, [1819]). 



PARARGE Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (4) : 59. Type-species by selection by 

 Butler (1868, Ent. mon. Mag. 4 : 195) : Papilio aegeria Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 

 1 : 473- 



PARASARPA Moore, [1898], Lep. ind. 3 (32) : 146-147. Type-species by original designation : 

 Limenitis zayla Doubleday, [1848], Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 35, fig. 4 [text (loc. cit. (2) : 

 276) written by Westwood after Doubleday 's death, published in August 1850]. 



PARASLAUGA Bethune-Baker, 1924, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1924 : 206. Type-species by 

 original designation : Aslauga kallimoides Schultze, 1912, Ent. Rundsch. 29 : 43. 



PARATA Moore, [1881], Lep. Ceylon 1 (4) : 160. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio chromus Cramer, [1780], Uitl. Kapellen 3 (24) : 163, pi. 284, fig. E. 



PARATHYMA Moore, [1898], Lep. ind. 3 (32) : 146. Type-species by original designation : 

 Papilio sulpitia Cramer, [1779], Uitl. Kapellen 3 (18) : 37, pi. 214, figs E, F. 



Moore established this nominal genus in a rough grouping of genera which can hardly be 

 dignified by the name of a key ; the name Parathyma so published, is however an available 

 name, for Moore designated a type-species for the genus so named. This deficiency was 

 made good by Moore in the next following Part of his work (3 (33) : 174), where he provided 

 a diagnosis for this genus. 



Moore carried the subdivision of the Limenitids at the genus-level to far greater lengths 

 than are currently considered necessary on taxonomic grounds. In the present section he 

 established seven nominal genera, having as their respective type-species species currently 



