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SYNCHLOE Doubleday, 1844, List. Spec. lep. Ins. Coll. Brit. Mus. 1 : 76. Type-species through 

 Section (i) (replacement names) of Article 67 by selection as such made for the replacement 

 name Chlosyne Butler, 1870, by Scudder 1875, Proc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10 : 141 : 

 Papilio janais Drury, [1782], ///. nat. Hist. 3 : index et 22, pi. 17, figs. 5, 6. 



The name Synchloe Doubleday is invalid, as it is a junior homonym of Synchloe Hiibner, 

 1818. 



SYNGEA Hiibner, [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (4) : 62. Type-species by selection by 



Hemming (1033, Entomologist 66 : 198) : Papilio pronoe Esper, [1780], Die Schmett. 1 



(Bd 2) Forts. Tagschmett. : 23, pi. 54, fig. 1 $. 

 SYNPALAMIDES Hiibner, [1823], Samml. exot. Schmett. 2 : pi. [142]. Type-species by nionn- 



typy : Synpalamides mimon Hiibner, [1823], ibid. 2 : pi. [142]. t 



Hiibner erroneously believed that the taxon represented by the nominal species Synpalamides 



mimon Hiibner was a butterfly. 



SYNTARUCHOI DES Sharp, [905], Zool. Rec. 41 (year 1904) (Ins.) : 251 (an Incorrect 

 Subsequent Spelling oi Syntarucoides Kaye, 1904). 



SYNTARUCOIDES Kaye, mo^, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1904 : 190. Type-species by original 

 designation : Papilio cassius Cramer, [1775], Uitl. Kapellen 1 (2) : 36, pi. 23, figs C, D. 



SYNTARUCUS Butler, [1901], Proc. zool. Soc. Loud. 1900 (4) : 929. Type-species by mono- 

 typy : Papilio telicanus Lang, 17*0, \'rr~. Schmett. Gegend. Augsburg (ed. 2) : 47. 



The taxon represented by the nominal spe< ies Papilio telicanus I.ang is currently treated 

 subjectively on taxonomic grounds .is being the same as that represented by the older- 

 established nominal species Papilio pirithous Linnaeus, 1767 (Syst. Nat. (ed. 12) 1 (2) : 790) 

 or as a subspecies ol tli.it taxon. 



SYNTEGANA Stichel, 1906, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins. 36 : 12. Type-species by selection by 

 Hemming (1935, Slylops 4 : 1) : Amathusia virgata Butler, 1870, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1870 : 486. 



SYRICHTHUS Obcrthur, 1910, l-'.tud. Lipid, comp. 4 : 377 (an Incorrect Subsequent Spelling 

 of Syrichtus Boisduval, [1834]). 



SYRICHTUS Boisduval, [1834], Icon. Hist. Lipid. Europe 1 (21/22) : 230. Type-species by 

 selection by Elwes & Edwards (1897), Trans, zool. Soc. Loud. 14 (4) : 153 : Papilio proto 

 Esper, [1805-1808], Die Schmett , Suppl. L4 Theils : pi. 123, figs 5 $, 6 $ [no text]. 



Boisduval erected the genus Syricktus for the whole of the European " Black-and-White 

 Skippers ", including the " Mallow Skippers " currently placed in the genus Carcharodus 

 Hiibner, [1819]. The subsequent history of this genus has been unfortunate through defective 

 type-selections. The first attempt was made by Scudder (1875, Pfoc. amer. Acad. Arts Sci., 

 Boston 10 : 273) who designated Papilio syrichtus Fabricius, 1775 (Syst. Ent. : 534) on the 

 ground that, owing to the tautonymy between the generic name Syrichtus and the specific 

 name of the nominal species Papilio syrichtus Fabricius, it must be assumed that it was that 

 species Boisduval must have taken for the base — and therefore the type-species — of this 

 genus. This type-selection by Scudder is invalid, because Boisduval did not cite the above 

 nominal species as belonging to this genus. The next author to make a type-selection for this 

 genus was Plotz who in 1879 (Stett. ent. Ztg 40 : 179) selected Papilio sao Bergstrasser, 

 [1779] (Nom. Ins. 2 : 67, pi. 40, figs 8, 9), a nominal species currently identified subjectively 

 as representing the same taxon as that represented by Papilio malvae Linnaeus, 1758 (a species 

 occurring in England and currently placed in the genus Pyrgus Hiibner, [1819]). Boisduval 

 correctly identified (: 231) Papilio malvae but he did not cite Papilio sao Bergstrasser and 

 accordingly Plotz's selection of that nominal species as type-species was invalid. (Boisduval, 

 while discussing what he called Syrichtus orbifer, i.e. Papilio orbifer, did mention a taxon under 

 the name sao but that taxon, which is closely allied to Papilio orbifer Hiibner, is totally distinct 

 from that which earlier Bergstrasser had named Papilio sao). The taxon which Boisduval 

 referred to as sao in the paragraph dealing with Papilio orbifer is Papilio sao Hiibner, [1802- 



