Most
taxa were described before
Hans Fruhstorfer coined the genus
Archaeoprepona in 1916, and were therefore originally placed in other genera. This includes the
type species of the genus,
Archaeoprepona demophon, first described as
Papilio demophon by
Carl Linnaeus. Even after the description of the genus
Archaeoprepona, the members have commonly been included in
Prepona instead. Species in the genus
Archaeoprepona: •
Archaeoprepona Fruhstorfer, 1915 •
Archaeoprepona amphimachus (Fabricius, 1775) – white-spotted prepona or turquoise-banded shoemaker •
Archaeoprepona camilla (Godman & Salvin, [1884]) •
Archaeoprepona chalciope (Hübner, [1823]) •
Archaeoprepona demophon (Linnaeus, 1758) – one-spotted prepona, banded king shoemaker •
Archaeoprepona demophoon (Hübner, [1814]) – Hübner's shoemaker, silver king shoemaker •
Archaeoprepona licomedes (Cramer, [1777]) – Cramer's shoemaker •
Archaeoprepona meander (Cramer, [1775]) – Meander prepona •
Archaeoprepona phaedra (Godman & Salvin, [1884]) ==Biogeographic realm==