TY - JOUR AU - Ramos-Gonzalez, Mario AU - Zamora-Manzur, Carlos AU - Parra, Luis E. PY - 2018/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The “parrot-butterfly” of Molina (Insecta: Lepidoptera): Refuting the combination Castnia psittacus (Molina, 1782) JF - Gayana JA - Gayana VL - 82 IS - 1 SE - Short Communications DO - 10.4067/S0717-65382018000100079 UR - https://gayana.cl/index.php/gn/article/view/15 SP - 79-84 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>The combination <em>Castnia psittacus</em> (Molina) designated by Philippi (1867) and later argued by Ureta (1955) is invalidated by deficiencies, inconsistencies, misrepresentations and misinterpretations of the description made by Molina. <em>Castnia eudesmia</em> Gray <strong>stat. rev</strong>. is proposed as the valid combination, while the epithet “<em>psittacus</em>” is assigned to the only Papilionidae of Chile <em>Battus polydamas</em>.</p></div></div></div> ER -