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SOME REMARKS ON CHANGES IN NAMES OF CERTAIN BUTTERFLIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. H. Edwards
W. H. Edwards
Affiliation:
Coalburgh, W.va.
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Papilio Asterias. Now sought to be changed to Polyxenes, although from the time of Fabricius to the publication of Kirby's Catalogue (1871). no other name than asterias has been in use. The species has been repeatedly figured as asterias in these hundred years, and under this name is well known to everyone who takes the least interest in these things.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1873 , pp. 8 - 10
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1873

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