Ahlbergia inopinata Omelko

Huang, Hao & Zhu, Jian-Qing, 2016, Ahlbergia maoweiweii sp. n. from Shaanxi, China with revisional notes on similar species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), Zootaxa 4114 (4), pp. 409-433 : 428-429

Ahlbergia inopinata Omelko , incertae sedis

( Figs. 130–138 )

Ahlbergia inopinata Omelko, in Omelko & Omelko 1995: 218 , figs. 1–6 for habitus, characters and larva, figs. 7–8 for male and female genitalia, TL: 18 km southeast from Ussuriisk, Primorskii Krai province, Russia; Korshunov 1996: 43, synonymy for A. tricaudata aquilonaria ; Tuzov 2000: 118, synonymy for A. frivaldszkyi aquilonaria .

Material. None

Taxonomy. Korshunov (1996) treated A. inopinata as a synonym of A. frivaldszkyi aquilonaria ; this opinion is supported by the wing-characters of a male paratype ( Figs. 130–131 ) preserved in the Siberian Zoological Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia and the male genitalic characters originally illustrated ( Omelko & Omelko 1995: 222, fig. 7; reproduced herein as Fig. 133 ). However, the female genitalia of A. inopinata as originally illustrated ( Omelko & Omelko 1995: 222, fig. 8; reproduced herein as Fig. 138 ) resemble those of A. leei instead of A. frivaldszkyi . In the original description of A. inopinata , the male holotype was not figured, and the specimen with male genitalia figured was not specified. Thus a final conclusion cannot be made from the original description. The holotype needs to be re-examined in the future. If the association of male and female genitalia in the original description is correct, A. inopinata should be regarded as a real species distinct from A. frivaldszkyi and A. leei . On the other hand, there is a possibility that Omelko & Omelko (1995) mixed specimens belonging to A. frivaldszkyi and A. leei in their work and regarded them as a single species.

Distribution. Russia (Ussuri).

Figures

FIGURES 130 – 138. Ahlbergia inopinata, habitus (available from website of Siberian Zoological Museum) and genitalia (reproduced from Omelko & Omelko, 1995). 130 – 132 — male paratype; 133 — male genitalia in ventral view (specimen not specified); 134 – 137 — female paratypes; 138 — female genitalia in ventral view (specimen not specified).