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TELICOTA Moore, [1881], Lep. Ceylon 1 (4) : 169. Type-species recommended to the Com- 

 mission for designation under Article 70 (a) (misidentified type-species) : Papilio colon 

 Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Ent. : 531. 



Moore designated Papilio angias Linnaeus, 1763 (Amoen. acad. 6 : 410) as the type-species 

 of the genus. Clearly, however, he was doubtful as to the interpretation of this nominal 

 species, for he sought to give precision to the concept represented by that nominal species by 

 associating with it a reference to the very crude figure given by Donovan in his Insects of China 

 (pi. 48, fig. 1), which is currently considered to be unrecognizable. The taxon represented by 

 the nominal species Papilio augias Linnaeus is one of two which, though very distinct structu- 

 rally and readily separable also superficially, were formerly confused with one another, the 

 other being the taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio colon Fabricius. Fortunate- 

 ly, the types of both these ancient species are still available, that' of Papilio augias in the 

 Linnaean collection in London and that of Papilio colon in the Copenhagen Museum. The 

 distinguishing characters of these species were fully worked out by Evans in 1949 (Cat. Hesp. 

 Europe Asia Australia : 391-393, 394-396)- When establishing the genus Telicota, Moore 

 placed in that genus only one species which he figured as figs 4, 4a on pi. 71. Moore mis- 

 identified the taxon so figured with that to which he had himself given the name Pamphila 

 bambusae. In fact the figures in the Lep. Ceylon represent kala Evans, 1934, the Ceylon 

 subspecies of the taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio colon Fabricius. Further, 

 it must be noted that, whereas (as shown above) the tnxon represented by Papilio colon does 

 occur in Ceylon, the country with the butterfly fauna of which Moore was dealing when he 

 erected the genus Telicota, the taxon represented by the nominal species Papilio augias is not 

 known to occur in that country. There is no doubt that the taxon which Moore thought was 

 that represented by the nominal species Papilio augias Linnaeus, when he designated that 

 nominal species to be the type-species of Telicota, was in fact that represented by the nominal 

 species Papilio colon Fabricius. The Commission is therefore being asked to regularize the 

 position by designating under Article 70 (a) the nominal species Papilio colon Fabricius to be 

 the type-species of the genus Telicota Moore. In accordance with the provisions of Article 80, 

 the Ceylon species (Papilio colon Fabricius) is here treated in the interests of continuity of 

 usage as being the type-species of this genus, pending the publication of the decision by the 

 Commission on the application submitted. 



TELINGA Moore, 1880, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 1880 (4) : 167. Type-species by original 

 designation : Satyrus adolphei (iucrin-Meneville, 1843, in Delessert, Souvenir Voy. Inde 

 (2) : 76. 



TELIPNA Aurivillius, 1895, Ent. Tidskr. 16 : 198. Type-species by original designation : 

 Liptena acraea Westwood [December 185 1], in Doubleday, Gen. diurn. Lep. (2) : pi. 77, 

 fig. 6. 



The case of the name Telipna is intimately bound up with that of the name Liptena, 

 particulars of which have been given earlier in the present work. It will be sufficient here 

 merely to recall the following facts : (i) The type-species of Telipna was by original designation 

 the nominal species Liptena acraea Westwood, [1851], a species which by selection by Scudder 

 (1875) was already the type-species of the genus Liptena Westwood, [1851] ; (ii) In conse- 

 quence, the name Telipna Aurivillius was invalid as a junior objective synonym of Liptena; 

 (iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the name Telipna was continuously used from the time 

 of its publication by Aurivillius in 1895 as the name for Liptena acraea Westwood and its 

 congeners, owing to the fact that an entirely different species, Liptena undularis Hewitson, 

 [1866], had become firmly, though incorrectly, established in the literature as the type-species 

 of Liptena Westwood. In order to regularize this practice, the Commission was asked in 1957 

 to use its Plenary Powers, inter alia, to designate Liptena undularis Hewitson, to be the type- 

 species of Liptena Westwood. This request was approved by the Commission in its Opinion 

 566 (1959, Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 20 : 377-390). In the same Opinion the name 

 Telipna Aurivillius was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 

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