Zygaena (Agrumenia) sogdiana altissima Burgeff, 1914

Zahiri, Reza, Tarmann, Gerhard, Efetov, Konstantin A., Rajaei, Hossein, Fatahi, Maryam, Seidel, Matthias, Jaenicke, Birgit, Dalsgaard, Thure, Sikora, Marcy & Husemann, Martin, 2021, An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera (Insecta) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part I. superfamilies Hepialoidea, Cossoidea, and Zygaenoidea, Evolutionary Systematics 5 (1), pp. 39-70 : 39

67. Zygaena (Agrumenia) sogdiana altissima Burgeff, 1914

Zygaena fraxini var. altissima Burgeff, 1914: 51.

Type material examined.

Syntypes 8♂♀ (ZMH 61552- ZMH 61559) (Fig. 67 ). "Alai mont. / 1905 Korb // Cotypus / altissima / Bgff // Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960 // ZMH 61552"; "Alai mont. // Cotypus / sogdiana / altissima / Bgff // Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960 // ZMH 61553"; "Alai mont. / 1905 Korb // Cotypus / sogdiana / altissima / Bgff // Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960 // ZMH 61554"; "Alai mont. / 1905 Korb // Cotypus / sogdiana / altissima / Bgff // Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960 // ZMH 61555"; "Alai mont. / 1905 Korb // Cotype f / altissima / Bgff / H.Reiss // Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960 // ZMH 61556"; "Alai mont. // Cotype m / altissima / Bgff / H. Reiss // v. altissima / Bgff // Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960 // ZMH 61557"; "Alai mont. / 1905 Korb // Cotypus / altissima / Bgff // Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960 // ZMH 61558"; "Alai mont. / 1905 Korb // Cotypus / sogdiana / altissima / Bgff // Coll Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960 // ZMH 61559".

Type locality.

'Trans-Alaikette, Ak-Bassegha, in einer Höhe von 2000 m’ [TransAlai near Tajikistan border].

Current status.

Valid subspecies.

Remarks.

Burgeff (1914) proposed this name as a variation of Z. fraxini Ménétriés, 1832 from Tajikistan. According to Article 45.6.4., it is subspecific if first published before 1961 and author expressly used the terms “variety”. The taxon Zygaena altissima Burgeff, 1914 has been transferred to Zygaena ransalp Erschoff, 1874. The current combination is Z. ransalp Zygaena altissima Burgeff, 1914 ( Hofmann and Tremewan 1996).

Figures

Figures 67 - 74. 67. Zygaena (Agrumenia) sogdiana altissima Burgeff, 1914; 68. Zygaena (Agrumenia) rosinae Korb, 1903; 69. Zygaena (Zygaena) transalpina sorrentina v. aureomaculata Stauder, 1921; 70. Zygaena exulans v. amarensis Diehl; 71. Zygaena (Zygaena) transalpina nigraltudinaria ab. flava Rocci, 1937; 72. Zygaena (Zygaena) transalpina sorrentina v. eranesceus Sicher, 1906; 73. Zygaena (Zygaena) transalpina litorea v. flava Stauder; 74. Zygaena (Mesembrynus) purpuralis v. asupinensis Byt. - S.