Subgenus Leptotes (Syntarucus) Butler, [1901]
       
Synonyms
[ORIG] Syntarucus Butler, [1901]. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1900(4): 929.  
    TS: Papilio telicanus Lang, 1789 (=Papilio pirithous Linnaeus, 1767) by monotypy.
[JH] Langia Tutt, 1906.Nat. Hist. Brit. Butterflies 8: 314.  
    TS: Papilio telicanus Lang, 1789 (=Papilio pirithous Linnaeus, 1767) by original designation ; nec Moore, 1872.
[NN] Raywardia Tutt, 1908.Nat. Hist. Brit. Butterflies 9(errata, Corrigenda, Addenda): 484.  
    Replacement name for Langia Tutt, 1906.
Notes  
(1) List of the species found in the Western Palearctic: Leptotes (Syntarucus) pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767).  
(2) List of the species not found in the Western Palearctic: Leptotes (Syntarucus) babaulti (Stempffer, 1935) ; L. (Syntarucus) brevidentatus (Tite, 1958) ; L. (Syntarucus) jeanneli (Stempffer, 1935) ; L. (Syntarucus) marginalis (Stempffer, 1944) ; L. (Syntarucus) rabefaner (Mabille, 1877) ; …  
Bibliography  
Butler A. G. [1901].
On two Consignments of Butterflies collected by Mr. Richard Crawshay in the Kikuyu Country of British East Africa in 1899 and 1900.
Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London 1900(4): 911-946, pl. 58. (url)
New taxon: Syntarucus.		  
       
Tutt J. W. 1905-1906.
A natural history of the British Lepidoptera, their world-wide variation and geographical distribution ; a text-book for students and collectors. Vol. VIII.
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Berlin: Friedländer & Sohn (Ed.). pp. 1-479, pl. 1-15. (url)
New taxon: Langia.		  
       
Tutt J. W. 1907-1908.
A natural history of the British Lepidoptera, their world-wide variation and geographical distribution ; a text-book for students and collectors. Vol. IX.
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Berlin: Friedländer & Sohn (Ed.). pp. i-x, 1-496, pl. 1-28. (url)
New taxon: Raywardia.		  
 
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