Capys is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Afrotropical realm.
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| Figures E and F, Papilio alphaeus, the type species of this genus, from Cramer and Stoll's De Uitlandsche Kapellen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Tribe: | Deudorigini |
| Genus: | Capys Hewitson, [1865] |
| Type species | |
| Papilio alphaeus Cramer, 1777 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Conservation of the name
editIn 1819, Jacob Hübner published the generic name Scoptes, including three species but without designating a type.[1] The generic name was more or less forgotten afterwards.[2] In 1966, Norman Denbigh Riley, for practical reasons, selected Papilio alphaeus Cramer, 1777, as the type species of Scoptes, by which Scoptes became an objective synonym of Capys, and started a case to suppress the name Scoptes for purposes of priority.[2] In 1986, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature suppressed the name Scoptes (for the principle of priority not principle of homonymy) in order to conserve the name Capys Hewitson.[3]
Species
edit- Capys alphaeus (Cramer, [1777])
- Capys bamendanus Schultze, 1909
- Capys bamptoni Henning & Henning, 1988
- Capys brunneus Aurivillius, 1916
- Capys calpurnia Henning & Henning, 1988
- Capys catharus Riley, 1932
- Capys collinsi Henning & Henning, 1988
- Capys connexivus Butler, 1897
- Capys cupreus Henning & Henning, 1988
- Capys disjunctus Trimen, 1895
- Capys hermes Henning & Henning, 1988
- Capys juliae Henning & Henning, 1988
- Capys meruensis Henning & Henning, 1988
- Capys penningtoni Riley, 1932
- Capys stuarti Collins & Larsen, 2000
- Capys usambarae Congdon & Collins, 1998
- Capys vorgasi Larsen & Collins, 2003
References
edit- ^ Hübner, J. (1819). Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge: 111
- ^ a b Riley, N.D. (1966). Scoptes Hübner [1819] v. Capys Hewitson 1864 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), a case of a forgotten name. Z.N.(S.) 1748. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature 23(4): 165
- ^ Tubbs, P.K. (1986). Opinion 1398, Capys Hewitson, [1865] (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 43(2): 152
External links
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Media related to Capys at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Capys at Wikispecies- "Capys Hewitson, 1865" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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