Fabriciana altonevadensis Reisser, 1927

Zahiri, Reza, Nazari, Vazrick, Rajaei, Hossein, Wiemers, Martin, Fatahi, Maryam, Seidel, Matthias, Dalsgaard, Thure & Husemann, Martin, 2021, ? An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part II. superfamily Papilionoidea, Evolutionary Systematics 5 (2), pp. 193-261 : 193

?106. Fabriciana altonevadensis Reisser, 1927

Original combination.

" Argynnis niobe var. nov. altonevadensis" Reisser, 1927 Int. Ent. Z. Guben 20: 373.

Current combination.

Fabriciana niobe altonevadensis (Reisser, 1927).

Current status.

Junior subjective synonym of Fabriciana niobe niobe (Linnaeus, 1758).

Type material.

Syntypes 1 ? 1? (ZMH 827656-827657) (Fig. 106 ). "Type # 7 ? / Argynnis niobe var. / altonevadensis Reisser / Int. Ent. Z. guben / Summer 1927" // "HISPANIA VII 26 / SIERRA NEVADA / O BUBACEK" // [blank label] // "ZMH 827656"; "Type # 4 ? / Argynnis niobe var. / altonevadensis Reisser / Int. Ent. Z. guben / Summer 1927" // "HISPANIA VII 26 / SIERRA NEVADA / O BUBACEK" // [blank label] // "ZMH 827657".

Type locality.

Spain: “… auf den Höhen der Sierra Nevada in Südspanien …“. [higher areas of Sierra Nevada in southern Spain].

Remarks.

Reisser (1927) proposed this name as a “var.” of Argynnia niobe (Linnaeus, 1758). According to article 45.6.4 ( ICZN 1999), it is subspecific if first published before 1961 and author expressly used the term “var.”.

Figures

Plate 15. 104. Danaus gilippus icensis (Fuchs, 1954); 105. Danaus gilippus roedingeri (Fuchs, 1954); 106. Fabriciana niobe altonevadensis (Reisser, 1927); 107. Argynnis pandora cyrnea Schawerda, 1926; 108. Argynnis pandora argentifasciata Kotzsch, 1937; 109. Euphydryas maturna f. urbanoides (Warnecke, 1942). a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.