Caloptenus italicus var. okbaensis Kheil, 1915

MACHÁýKOVÁ, Lenka & FIKÁýEK, Martin, 2014, Catalogue of the type specimens deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic *, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54 (1), pp. 399-450 : 408

Caloptenus italicus var. okbaensis Kheil, 1915

Caloptenus okbaensis Kheil, 1915: 101 .

Three syntypes are deposited in NMPC:

SYNTYPE (♀ with extended right forewing):‘d [hw] // Sidi Okba / 4.7.1914 [hw] / [reverse of the same label] C. italicus / leg. Kheil [hw] // Original [hw, with pink pencil underline] // Mus.Nat. Pragae / Inv.[p] 2645 [hw, orange label] // SYNTYPE / CALOPTENUS italicus / var. okbaensis Kheil, 1915 / label attached by NMP [p, red label]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Sidi Okba / 4.7.1914 [hw] / [reverse of the same label] C. italicus / leg. Kheil [hw] // Type: Calliptamus / okbaensis Kheil [hw] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 2646 [hw, orange label] // SYNTYPE / CALOPTENUS italicus / var. okbaensis Kheil, 1915 / label attached by NMP [p, red label]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Sidi Okba / 4.7.1914 [hw] / [reverse of the same label] C. italic. / lg. Kheil [hw] // SYNTYPE / CA- LOPTENUS italicus / var. okbaensis Kheil, 1915 / label attached by NMP [p, red label]’, with a label pinned next to the specimen: ‘ Caloptenus / okbaënsis / Kheil / type!! [p]’.

Current status. Junior synonym of Calliptamus wattenwylianus Pantel, 1896 .

Comments. Based on the travelogue following the original description in KHEIL (1915), the taxon was described from a short series of females. Additionally, it is mentioned that posterior wings of all specimens were eaten by ants. Of the above specimens, hind wings are only absent from the first syntype which also corresponds with the photograph in the original description, in remaining two specimens hind wings are preserved. In spite of that, all specimens bear the same label data in Kheil’s handwriting corresponding to the original description, and we hence consider all of them as syntypes. We labeled the specimens accordingly.

As it is evident from the title of the paper by KHEIL (1915) [On the varieties and aberrations of Caloptenus italicus Linné ] as well as from the original labels attached to the syntypes, the taxon was originally described as a variety of Caloptenus italicus (Linnaeus, 1758) .