DYN CL SYN Tribe Rhodocerini

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Michel Taymans
Sylvain Cuvelier

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15.iii.2026


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		Tribe Rhodocerini Duponchel, [1835]

Synonyms
[ND]	Rhodocerides Duponchel, [1835]. In: Godart, Hist. nat. Lépid. suppl. 1: 385.
		TG: Rhodocera Boisduval & Leconte, [1830] (= Gonepteryx Leach, [1815]).
[JS]	Gonepterygidi Verity, 1920. Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Portici 14: 51.
		TG: Gonepteryx [Leach], [1815].
[JS]	Gonepterygini Niculescu, 1963. Faun. Rep. pop. Rom. Ins. 11(6): 183.
		TG: Gonepteryx [Leach], [1815].


Notes
(1)	List of the genera found in the Western Palearctic: Gonepteryx [Leach], [1815].
(2)	List of the genera not found in the Western Palearctic: Dercas Doubleday, [1847].

Bibliography
Duponchel P. A. J. 1832-[1835]. In: Godart, Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères ou papillons de France - Diurnes. Supplément aux tomes premier et deuxième. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis (Ed.). pp. 1-467, Pl. 1-50. (note on publication dates: 1832: 1-368, pl. 1-42 ; [1835]: 369-467, pl. 43-50) (url)
	New taxon: Rhodocerides.

Niculescu E. V. 1963. Fauna Republicii Populare Romîne – Insecta. Volumul XI, Fascicula 6, Lepidoptera, Fam. Pieridae (Fluturi). Bucarest: Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (Ed.). (url not available)
	New taxon: Gonepterygini.

Verity R. 1920. Contributo alle ricerche sulla variazione e la distribuzione dei Lepidotteri in Italia: Zygaenicles, Grypocera e Rhoimlocera del Massiccio delle Maìnarde (Prov. di Caserta). Bollettino del Laboratorio di zoologia generale e agraria della R. Scuola superiore d'agricoltura in Portici 14: 33-62. (url)
	New taxon: Gonepterygidi.

Reference publications
Kawahara A. et al. 2023. A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 903-913. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9 /Supplementary Materials (url)

Wei F., Huang W., Fang L., He B., Zhao Y., Zhang Y., Shu Z., Su C. & Hao J. 2023. Spatio-Temporal Evolutionary Patterns of the Pieridae Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) Inferred from Mitogenomic Data. Genes 14(1): (72). DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14010072 /Supplementary Materials (url)

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Editors-in-Chief: Michel Taymans & Sylvain Cuvelier