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PROTEIDES Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmelt. (7) : 105. Type-species by selection 

 by Butler (1870, Ent. mon. Mag. 7 : 93) : Papilio mercurius Fabricius, 1787, Mantissa 

 Ins. 2 : 86. 



The type-species of this genus was formerly known subjectively by the older name Papilio 

 idas Cramer, [1779] (Uitl. Kapellen 3 (22) : 118), but that name is invalid, as it is a junior 

 homonym of Papilio idas Linnaeus, 1761 (Faun. svec. (ed. 2) : 284) [a name validated by the 

 Commission when in Opinion 269 it suppressed the earlier name Papilio idas Linnaeus, 1758]. 



PROTESILAUS Swainson, [1832], Zool. Illnstv. (2) 2 : pi. 93. Type-species by original 

 designation : Papilio protesilaus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 463. 



PROTHOE Hiibner, [1824], Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pi. [54]. Type-species by monotypy ; 

 Prothoe franckii Hiibner, [1824], ibid. 2 : pi. [54]. 



PRO TIALMEN US Waterhouse & Lyell, [1914], Butts Australia : 7, 126, 129. Type-species 

 by original designation (: 129) : Ialmenus ictinus Hewitson, [1865], ///. diurn. Lep., 

 Lycaenidae 1 (text) : 54 ; 2 (plates) : pi. 24, figs 7, 8 <$, 6 $. 



PROTODRYAS Reuss, 1928, Int. ent. Z. 22 : 146. Type-species through Section (i) (replace- 

 ment names) of Article 67 : Argynnis kamala Moore, 1857, in Horsfield & Moore, Cat. 

 lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1) : 156. 



The name Protodryas was introduced to replace the name Prodryas Reuss, 1926, which is 

 invalid under the Law of Homonymy. 



PROTOGENES Mabille & Boullet, 1912, Ann. Sci. not., Paris, Zool. (9) 16 : 92. Type- 

 species by selection by Lindsey (1925, Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 18 : 98) : Eudamus extrusus 

 Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), [1867], Reise Fregatte "Novara" , Lep. Rhop. (3) : 510, pi. 72, 

 ngs. 13, 14. 



The name Protogenes Mabille & Boullet is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Protogenes 

 Hackel, 1865 (Z. wiss. Zool. 15 : 360) and also of Protogenes Saalmiiller, 1884 (Lep. Madagascar 

 (1) : 240). It was replaced by Lindsey in 1925 by the name Vlasta, but that name is itself 

 invalid under the Law of Homonymy. It has since been replaced by the name Rachelia 

 Hemming, 1964. 



PROTOGONIOMORPHA Wallengren, 1857, K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Stockholm 

 (n.f.) 2 (1) (No. 4) : 23. Type-species by monotypy : Papilio anacardii Linnaeus, 1858, 

 Sys. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 467. 



PROTOGONIUS Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (7) : 100. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Papilio fabius Cramer, [1776], Uitl. Kapellen 1 (8) : 141, pi. 90, figs C, D. 



The name Protogonius Hiibner is invalid, as it is a junior objective synonym of Consul 

 Hiibner, [1807]. 



PROTOGRAPHIUM Munroe, 1961, Canad. Ent., Suppl. 17 : 18. Type-species by original 

 designation : Papilio leosthenes Doubleday, 1846, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 18 : 372. 



PRUSIANA Evans, 1937, Entomologist 70 : 38. Type-species by original designation : 

 Pamphila prusias Felder (C), 1861, S.B. Akad. Wiss. Wien 43 : 44. 



PSADILOPTERIS Stichel, 1930, in Strand's Lep. Cat. 41 : 675 (an Incorrect Subsequent 

 Spelling of Psalidopteris Hiibner, [1823]). 



PSALIDOPTERIS Hiibner, [1823], Zutr. z. Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : 17. Type-species by 

 selection by Scudder (1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 258) : Psalidopteris 

 nycha Hiibner, [1823], ibid. 2 : 17, pi. (49), figs 279, 280. 



Scudder overlooked the fact that Hiibner had placed two species in this genus and accord- 

 ingly stated that the above was the type-species by monotypy. This misconception of 

 Scudder's does not however invalidate his action in this matter (Article 69(a) (hi)). 



The taxon represented by the nominal species Psalidopteris nycha Hiibner is currently 

 treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as being the same as that represented by the 

 older-established nominal species Hesperia thucydides Fabricius, 1793, Ent. syst. 3 (1) - 323. 



