Candidus alcyone, CRAMER, 1775

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 : 314

ALCYONE CRAMER, 1775

Pap[ilio] Dan[aus] Cand[idus] alcyone Cramer, 1775: 89 , 151, pl.58, figs A, B, C [original plate 51, figs A, A, B] (junior homonym of Papilio alcyone Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 [ Satyrinae ]; ICZN Opinion 516). China; ‘Côte de Coromandel’ [= south-eastern India], Ceylon [= Sri Lanka]

Papilio Danaus Candidus alcyone, Stoll, 1782b: 5 [No. 20]. Stoll synonymizes with Papilio damone Linnaeus [current identity unknown ( Honey & Scoble, 2001)].

Material examined. No potential Cramer specimens located.

Current status. Invalid junior subjective synonym of Catopsilia p. pyranthe (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Yata, 1981) .