Thyatira moellendorfi, Fixsen, 1887

Mironov, Vladimir G. & Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2019, Types of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae) in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Zootaxa 4615 (1), pp. 145-154 : 148

moellendorfi Fixsen, 1887

Figs 9, 10

Thyatira Möllendorfi Fixsen, 1887 (in synonymy to Thyatira aurorina Butl. ), Mémoires sur les lépidoptères 3: 351, pl. 15, fig. 12.

Thyatira möllendorfii Fixsen (see pl. 15, fig. 12)—misspelling.

Type locality: “nur von Korea ” [Pung Tung after the lectotype: Central Korea]. According to Fixsen (1887: 243), Pung Tung was a small village with ca. 12-15 huts situated in a tight river valley 102 English miles NE of Seoul and 129 NE of Chemulpoo at an altitude of about 1700 ft a.s.l.

Present status: Cymatochrocis aurorina (Butler, 1881) or Cymatochrocis aurorina ssp. moellendorfi ( Fixsen, 1887) : Habrosynini .

Taxonomic remarks: The taxon is better considered a continental subspecies of the Japanese aurorina (Butler, 1881) , which is now considered as lying within Habrosyne s. lat.

Traditionally this taxon has been considered as a member of the genus Habrosyne s. lat.; Cymatochrocis is thus its subgenus or a separate genus. We follow the second point of view.

Nomenclatural notes: Several syntypes had been collected by O. Herz from 4 to 23 July and they all constitute the original type series; totally six specimens are found in ZISP. The lectotype of the taxon is here designated. It is a male in fine condition (coll. ZISP: cabinet 217/drawer 3) which is supplied with the following labels: a quadrat with a wide black frame with inscription « ♂ | Pung-Tung» and «8 7 84 | 26 6 | Herz» on the reverse [this signifies the date in the European Calendar followed by the date in the old Russian style], and white rectangle with a printed text «Колл. Вел. Кн. | НиколаЯ | Михайловича». The specimen is supplied with a red lectotype label and corre- sponding text .

Five more syntypes (2♂♂ and 3♀♀) collected on “18 7 84 | 6 Herz”, “4 7 84 | 12 8 | Herz”, “4 7 84 | 22 6 | Herz”, “18 7 84 | 6. 7 | Herz”, “23 7 84 | 11 7 | Herz” are considered paralectotypes and designated with the corresponding red rectangular labels .

Comment: The name of the taxon was incorrectly introduced as Thyatira Möllendorf ii Fixsen on color plate 15 of the same issue, and the name of the person [he was highly likely Otto Franz von Möllendorff, 24.December 1848 — 17.August 1903, a German malacologist who had worked for a long time in Eastern Asia] was also given as Möllendor ff on page 352—but we continue to use the taxon spelling as it was originally used in the description of the species.

Figures

FIGURES 1–23. Types of Thyatirinae. 1, holotype of Cymatophora albicostata Bremer, 1861 (ZISP); 2, its reproduction from Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 8(1): pl. 5, fig. 6; 3, lectotype of Cymatophora octogesima var. caucasica Krulikowsky, 1901 (ZMKU: courtesy I. Kostjuk); 4, lectotype of Gonophora dieckmanni Graeser, 1888 (ZISP); 5, correct lectotype of Thyatira hedemanni Christoph, 1885 (ZISP); 6, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 2, fig. 3); 7, holotype of Thyatira derasa var. intermedia Bremer, [1864] (ZISP); 8, holotype of Tethea ocularis ssp. opa Zolotuhin, 1997 (ZISP); 9, lectotype of Thyatira moellendorfi Fixsen, 1887 (ZISP); 10—its reproduction from the original description (pl. 15, fig. 12); 11, false lectotype of Asphalia nigrofascicula Graeser, 1888 (NHML); 12, correct lectotype of A. nigrofascicula Graes. (ZISP); 13, so-called ‘type’ of Cymatophora tancrei Graeser, 1888, from ZMHU; 14, labels of C. tancrei enlarged and cover page of the publication issue; 15, false holotype of Cymatophora or var. terrosa Graeser, 1888 (ZMHU); 16, correct lectotype of C. or var. terrosa Graes. (ZISP); 17, lectotype of Thyatira violacea Fixsen, 1887 (ZISP); 18, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 15, fig. 11); 19, paratype of Nothoploca nigripunctata ssp. zolotarenkoi Dubatolov, 1987 (ZISP); 20, holotype of Cymatophora trifolium Alphéraky, 1895 (ZISP); 21, lectotype of Thyatira opalescens Alphéraky, 1897 (ZISP); 22, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 9, fig. 7); 23, location of Pung-Tung village on the map by Fixsen (1887).