M. phoebe var. ornata Christoph, 1893

[TL: c irca ‘Guberli’, promontorium uralensium australium (Guberlya, Southern Urals, Orenburg Province, Russian Federation)] separated from M. phoebe simultaneously by Russell et al. (2005), under the name emipunica Verity 1919, and Varga et al. (2005), under the name ogygia Fruhstorfer, 1908 . A lectotype (Figs 9A, B, C) selected by Lvovsky (Anikin et al. 2017: 521) demonstrates clearly the wing and antennal characteristics of M. ornata . Unfortunately van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 60) referred to ‘ two male syntypes’ and placed the taxon ornata as a subspecies of M. phoebe . Their figures (Plate 13, figs 2 & 3), purporting to be ‘ ♂ syntypes from Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin’ are clearly females; all the figured specimens show the characters typical of M. ornata . Most authors now accept this taxon to be a species distinct from M. phoebe (Tshikolovets 2011: 498; Lafranchis et al. 2015: 468). Some authors have used different names for the species (see Russell & Tennent 2016), whilst others continue to consider all M. phoebe group taxa to be conspecific (Kudrna et al., 2015: 379). However, a large set of molecular and morphological data unequivocally indicate that M. ornata and M. phoebe are different species, which are found sympatrically in a number of localities (Tóth et al., 2014, 2016, 2017).