Papilio saharae aferpilaggi, Cassar & Catania, 2023

Cassar, Louis-F & Catania, Aldo, 2023, A new subspecies of Papilio saharae Oberthür, 1879 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) from Lampedusa, Italy, Zootaxa 5231 (1), pp. 65-78 : 70

Papilio saharae aferpilaggi ssp. nov.

Holotype. Adult male, collected 05 April 2022, leg. Aldo Catania and Louis F Cassar ( Figure 5 ). The holotype will be deposited in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale ‘ G. Doria’, Genoa, Italy.

Type locality. Contrada di Cimitero Vecchio [35.51473, 12.56600], island of Lampedusa ( Isola di Lampedusa ),

Sicily, Italy (Sicilia, Italia).

Figures

FIGURE 5. [Top] Papilio saharae aferpilaggi ssp. nov. ♁ holotypus (underside and upperside), Contrada di Cimitero Vecchio (on plateau between Tabaccara and Cala Galera valley), Lampedusa. [Bottom] Holotypus – scale bar increments: mm/in. (Photos: L-F. Cassar).