Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

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Genus:
Taxila Doubleday, 1847 . List Spec. lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. (2) : 2.    [BHLBHL]

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 2

Higher classification:
PAPILIONOIDEA : RIODINIDAE : NEMEOBIINAE

Type-species:
Emesis drupadi Horsfield, 1828. Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy : explic. pl.2, figs 3-3a.

Type-species designation:
by subsequent designation by Scudder , 1875. Proc. amer. acad. Arts Sci., Boston 10(2): 276. [(as a junior name of haquinus)]    [BHLBHL]

Type specimens:
? Type status ? COUNTRY: ? Locality, (? Depository)..

Notes:
Hemming (1967) stated:-

The taxon represented by the nominal species Emesis drupadi Horsfield is currently treated subjectively on taxonomic grounds as a subspecies of the taxon represented by the older established nominal species Papilio haquinus Fabricius, 1793, Ent. syst. 3 (1) : 55).

The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008).

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Junior name(s):
Taxilia ; Fruhstorfer, 1897: 302.


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