Papilionidae
Baroniinae
Papilioninae
Leptocircini
Papilionini
Teinopalpini
Troidini
Atrophaneura
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Cressida
Euryades
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Ornithoptera
Pachliopta
Parides
P. aeneas
P. agavus
P. alopius
P. anchises
P. ascanius
P. bunichus
P. burchellanus
P. chabrias
P. childrenae
P. cutorina
P. echemon
P. erithalion
P. eurimedes
P. gundlachianus
P. hahneli
P. iphidamas
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P. orellana
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P. panthonus
P. phalaecus
P. phosphorus
P. photinus
P. pizarro
P. proneus
P. quadratus
P. sesostris
lycomes
sesostris
tarquinius
trinitensis
zestos
zischkai
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P. zacynthus
Pharmacophagus
Trogonoptera
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Parnassiinae
Pieridae
Species
Parides sesostris (Cramer, [1779])
lycomes Gray, [1853]
Original Description
Papilio species lycomes Gray, [1853]
Type specimen(s)
Status: Syntype(s)
Specimen data: ST
Type locality
Type locality as cited in original description: "Surinam"
Current country: Surinam
Taxonomic history
Originally described as Papilio species lycomes Gray, [1853]
Treated as a synonym of Papilio cyphotes Gray, 1852 by Kirby (1871:527), and listed as "Var. b". Treated as a synonym of Parides sesostris (Cramer, 1780) by Tyler et al. (1994:29).
Treated as a synonym of Papilio cyphotes Gray, 1852 by Kirby (1871:527), and listed as "Var. b". Treated as a synonym of Parides sesostris (Cramer, 1780) by Tyler et al. (1994:29).
Remarks
This name was introduced without a separate description, possibly unintentionally, in reference to published descriptions and illustrations by Esper of Papilio tullus (Ausl. Schmett. pl. 12, fig. 3), and by Boisduval of Papilio arbates var. (Sp. Gen. Lep. I, p. 291, 118). The type locality was given as Surinam without any indication of specimens present in BMNH or otherwise available to the author.