Graphium doson actor (Fruhstorfer, 1907)

Hu, Shao-Ji, Cotton, Adam M., Lamas, Gerardo, Duan, Kuang & Zhang, Xin, 2023, Checklist of Yunnan Papilionidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) with nomenclatural notes and descriptions of new subspecies, Zootaxa 5362 (1), pp. 1-69 : 22-23

30a. Graphium doson actor (Fruhstorfer, 1907)

P. [apilio] jason actor Fruhstorfer, 1907; Ent. Z., 21 (34): 209; TL: ‘Hainan’.

Papilio axion C. Felder & R. Felder, 1864 ; Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien., 14 (3): 305; TL: ‘ India sept. (Silhet)’ [Sylhet or Khasia Hills]. [JH of Papilio axion Boisduval, 1832 ( Papilionidae )].

P. [apilio] jason axion form temp. nivepictus Fruhstorfer, 1903; Berl. ent. Z., 47 (3/4): 205; TL: ‘Sikkim; Siam; Assam; Five Finger Mts., Hainan’. [IFS]

P. [apilio] jason evemonides forma nova praestabilis Fruhstorfer, 1907; Ent. Z., 21 (34): 209; TL: ‘Tonkin’ [N. Vietnam]. [IFS]

P. [apilio] jason nanus Fruhstorfer, 1909 ; Ent. Z., 22 (41): 170; TL: ‘Şd-Annam, Xom-Gom’ [near Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan Province, S. Vietnam]. [JH of Papilio nanus Herbst, 1804 ( Lycaenidae )]

P. [apilio] jason praestabilis Fruhstorfer, 1909; Ent. Z., 22 (41): 170; TL: ‘ Tonkin... Hongkong’.

Arisbe doson axionides Page & Treadaway, 2014 ; Stutt. Beitr. Naturk. A (NS), 7: 272. [replacement name for Papilio axion C. Felder & R. Felder, 1864 ]. syn. nov.

Distribution: found in lowlands and river valleys in C. and S. Yunnan; also found in S. China and N. India to Indochina.

Note: Page & Treadaway (2014) replaced the junior homonym Papilio axion C. Felder & R. Felder, 1864 with axionides, and treated populations from Indochina, except N.W. Thailand under the name actor, described from Hainan. They claimed that ssp. axionides occurs from India to N.W. Thailand, but axionides is indistinguishable from actor, which they listed as occurring just east of the range of axionides despite there being no barriers to the distribution of this taxon which is common in secondary growth as well as forest. The taxon axionides Page & Treadaway, 2014 is synonymised here, thus Graphium doson actor (Fruhstorfer, 1907) is the valid name for populations from N. India to S.E. China and Indochina.