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Notes:
Hemming (1967) stated:-
Butler when establishing Laxita as a subgenus of Abisara Felder (C.) & Felder (R.), 1860, cited only Taxila teneta as belonging to this taxon, though he indicated that he regarded certain other species, which he did not specify, as belonging to Laxita also ; he then went on to discuss the type-species of Taxila Doubleday. Butler's remarks were rather incoherent, but there is, I consider, no doubt that, as stated above, Taxila teneta is the type-species by monotypy ; if it were to be considered that Butler should be regarded as having included in Laxita also a species mentioned in the discussion on Taxila, the species Laxita teneta would still be the type-species of Laxita, that species having been expressly so selected by Kirby in [1881] (in Zool. Rec. 16 (year 1879) (Ins) : 143).
Neotaxila Fruhstorfer, 1914, is the subjective synonym of Laxita Butler 1879, Corbet and Pendlebury, 1978, The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, p. 491.
The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).
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