Candidus daplidice, LINNAEUS OF CRAMER, 1777

Chainey, John E., 2005, The species of Papilionidae and Pieridae (Lepidoptera) described by Cramer and Stoll and their putative type material in the Natural History Museum in London, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3), pp. 283-337 : 318-320

DAPLIDICE LINNAEUS OF CRAMER, 1777

Pap[ilio] Dan[aus] Cand[idus] daplidice, Cramer, 1777: 114 , 148, pl.171, figs C, D [original plate 146, figs B, B]. Cape of Good Hope [= South Africa.] [Misidentification.]

Papilio Danaus Candidus daplidice, Stoll, 1782b: 5 [No. 60]. Stoll synonymizes daplidice with Papilio hellica [sic] Linnaeus [= Pontia helice (Linnaeus) ].

Material examined. No potential Cramer specimens located.

Identity. Pontia helice (Linnaeus, 1764) .

DELIA CRAMER, 1780

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Pap[ilio] Dan[aus] Cand[idus] delia Cramer, 1780a: 144 , 174, pl.273, fig. A [original plate 243, fig. B] (junior homonym of Papilio delia Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 [ Nymphalidae ]). Virginia [= USA] (Cornelis van Lennep).

Papilio Danaus Candidus delia, Stoll, 1782b: 6 [No. 87].

Material examined. Syntype ♂, with van Lennep label ‘ No. 87 DELIA Cr. III. 273. A.’ ( BMNH (E)#665101) is a good match with original plate 243, fig. B; there is some damage to thorax, but no definite evidence that it has been re-pinned .

Remarks. This specimen is also a syntype of Pieris daira Godart, 1819 , and Eurema demoditas Hübner, [1819] , both of which were proposed as replacement names for Papilio delia Cramer. The question of which of these two names has priority has yet to be formally resolved ( Miller & Brown, 1981), although current usage (e.g. Lamas, 2004b) favours daira Godart [Godart’s work was published [13 February] 1819, that of Hübner in ‘[early 1819]’].

Current status. Invalid senior subjective synonym of Eurema daira (Godart, 1819) ( Lamas, 2004b) .

Figures

Figures 27–32. Fig. 27. Papilio creona Cramer (possible syntype). Fig. 28. Papilio crocale Cramer (syntype). Fig. 29. Papilio delia Cramer (syntype). Fig. 30. Papilio ecclipsis of Cramer. Fig. 31. Aphrissa statira Cramer (mislabelled specimen). Fig. 32. Papilio epaphia Cramer (syntype).