Papilionidae
Baroniinae
Parnassiinae
Luehdorfiini
africana 
xanthe
Parnassiini
Species
Zerynthia (Zerynthia) rumina (Linnaeus, 1758)
australis Esper, 1781
Original Description
P.[apilio] Nymph.[alis] Phal.[eratus] Rumina australis Esper, 1781
Type specimen(s)
Status: Syntype(s)
Specimen data: ST (♂♂, ♀♀, 1780, C. J. de Villers leg., coll. Esper)
Current depository: ZSSM, München ?
Type locality
Type locality as cited in original description: "in den Gebürgen von Languedoc"
Current country: France
Taxonomic history
Originally described as P.[apilio] Nymph.[alis] Phal.[eratus] Rumina australis Esper, 1781
Treated as a synonym of Thais rumina Linn. by Gray (1853:80), and listed as "Variety a". Treated as a synonym of Thais rumina medesicaste Ill., 1803 by Kirby (1871:516).
Treated as a synonym of Thais rumina Linn. by Gray (1853:80), and listed as "Variety a". Treated as a synonym of Thais rumina medesicaste Ill., 1803 by Kirby (1871:516).
Remarks
Date after Heppner (1982): text and plate 1781. Name on plate: Papil.[io] Rumina europae australis. Esper differentiated Z. rumina and Z. polyxena under the names P. ... Rumina australis and P. ... Rumina vulgaris.