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Post by queenbug on Apr 22, 2022 20:56:27 GMT -8
Hi is this lycophron ? doesn't look like it. From Peru thank you in advance  |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Apr 23, 2022 1:02:50 GMT -8
There is no species called Papilio lycophron. The name lycophron Hübner, [1823] is a junior synonym of Papilio astyalus Godart, 1819.
This is Papilio paeon paeon Boisduval, 1836.
Adam.
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Post by trehopr1 on Apr 23, 2022 8:40:20 GMT -8
Very nice example.👍😊
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Post by queenbug on Apr 23, 2022 22:26:34 GMT -8
Oh thank you for this. all these years i have thought lycophron was a species . happy to have paeon though as well - pity the supplier doesn't know what he's sending - nice surprise tho !
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Post by Adam Cotton on Apr 24, 2022 0:21:08 GMT -8
Papilio paeon is relatively rarer, so you got a good deal!
Many people still call P. astyalus by the well known name used 100 years ago, P. lycophron. D'Abrera used it in 1981 (Butterflies of the Neotopical Region part I), but changed it in the 2016 second edition which most South American dealers have not seen. The problem was started due to the confusion in dates of publication of Hübner's names. Rothschild & Jordan (1906. A Revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13(3): 411-752) assumed Hübner published lycophron in 1818 and gave it priority over astyalus Godart, 1819. Only later was it confirmed that lycophron was actually published in 1823, but meanwhile everyone followed the names of Rothschild & Jordan.
Adam.
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