taxonID	type	description	language	source
03ECBD0540540B2EFF1C7C8CFC21690E.taxon	description	The identification of these two species from museum material can be problematic, as full-proof identification ideally requires an examination of the late instar larvae (RUSSELL et al., 2007: 159 [figures]). However, forewing shape, detailed pattern of the submarginal markings of the ventral wing surfaces and the shape of the tips of the antenna usually provide a good indication (cf TÓTH & VARGA, 2011: appendix) particularly when there are several syntypes available from the same population. Details of the habitat where they were captured are also of value. M. phoebe prefers relatively moist mesophilous conditions, whereas M. ornata is usually found in hot dry biotopes (RUSSELL et al., 2007). Figures 1 - 4 illustrate the undersides of specimens from two sympatric and partially synchronic populations of M. phoebe and M. ornata from North Macedonia and Italy demonstrate the following differences: forewing apices of males tend to be acute in M. phoebe but more rounded in M. ornata (females of both species tend to be rounded); the black submarginal markings on the undersides of the wings tend to be linear arches touching the intervening veins in M. phoebe but more triangular in shape and not meeting these veins in M. ornata; tips of the antennae are club-shaped and more pointed in M. phoebe but foreshortened and spatulate in M. ornata. Designations of lectotypes, in chronological order	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540540B2EFF1C7C8CFC21690E.taxon	description	the Type Locality (TL) is disputed: originally Staudinger gave “ It. ” (= Italy) but this was an error (recte “ Iberia ”, HIGGINS, 1941: 336). The syntypic series present in the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin comprises 11 specimens (5 11 and 6 00) from three different localities. All specimens have the label “ Origin ” on their pins but Staudinger did not specify a holotype. The syntypes are from three widely spread Spanish collecting locations: “ Barcelona ” (3 11 and 3 00), “ Granada ” (1 1 and 2 00) and “ San Ildefonso ”, Segovia (1 1 and 1 0). This has resulted in two different authors suggesting limiting the Type Locality to two different locations: firstly, FRUHSTORFER (1916: 82 (A) (2): 1) suggested it should be “ Andalusia ” and this was accepted by HIGGINS (1941: 336); secondly, VERITY (1928: 163) suggested “ Barcelona ” and this was accepted by VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014: 60), who figured a specimen from Barcelona. The issue arises that the specimens from Barcelona are M. phoebe but those from Granada are M. ornata, and the female from San Ildefonso (specimen c 2 e 3 b 8) is M. ornata, with foreshortened antenna and submarginal markings not touching the intervening veins, whilst the identity of the San Ildefonso male is questionable with specific characteristics not well defined. However, the locality at an altitude of c. 1200 m in the Sierra de Guadarrama, where it is hot and dry in the summer, is indicative of univoltine M. ornata. The name occitanica has been in common use by lepidopterists for almost 150 years to represent the form of M. phoebe found in the Iberian Peninsula. Thus, in order to preserve this stability, a male specimen of M. phoebe from Barcelona is here designated as lectotype for M. phoebe v. occitanica Staudinger, 1871 (Figs 5 a, b) and labelled accordingly (Fig. 5 c). The labels on the pin of the lectotype are as follows: on pink paper with black surround “ Origin ”; on white paper handwritten in black “ Barcelona ”; on white paper printed in black “ ex coll. ” and handwritten in black “ 3 / 11 ” / printed “ Staudinger ”; on white paper printed in black: “ http: // coll. mfn- / berlin. de / u / / c 2 e 41 c ”; on purple-bordered white circle printed: “ LECTO- / TYPE ”; on white paper printed in black: “ LECTOTYPE / Melitaea phoebe v. occitanica / Staudinger, 1871 / designated by Peter Russell, 2019 ”.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540540B2EFF1C7C8CFC21690E.taxon	materials_examined	We hereby limit the Type Locality for M. phoebe v. occitanica to “ Barcelona ”, Spain.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540540B2EFF1C7C8CFC21690E.taxon	discussion	In order to demonstrate the different specific identifications we also here figure a male syntype from Granada (Figs 6 a, b) and a female from San Ildefonso (Figs 7 a, b), which clearly show the characteristic morphology of M. ornata. The three syntypes from Granada and the two from San Ildefonso are here designated as paralectotypes and have had the following labels added to their pins: pale blue-bordered on circular white paper printed in black: “ PARA- / LECTO- / TYPE ”; on white paper printed in black: “ PARALECTOTYPE / Melitaea phoebe v. occitanica / Staudinger, 1871 / designated by Peter Russell, 2019 / (“ misident. Recte: / Melitaea ornata Christoph, 1893 ”) (Fig. 6 c, 7 c).	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540570B2EFF277A07FF066B35.taxon	description	[TL: Italy, Calabria, Cosenza, Mt. Cocuzzo] was described as an aberration (“ Ich benenne diese Aberration Forma totila, ab. nov. ”), thus Stauder’s 1914 name totila, although it has been given subspecific status by TÓTH & VARGA (2011) has no status in nomenclature. The whereabouts of the specimen is not known but its geographic source, south of the known distribution of M. phoebe in Italy, suggests it is an aberration of M. ornata (RUSSELL & TENNENT, 2016: note 92; RUSSELL, 2018: 258). VERITY (1938: 152 and Tav. 43: figs 68, 69) considered this to equate to M. phoebe phoebina Turati, 1921 (see below); however his illustrations appear significantly paler than Stauder’s much darker melanic female (STAUDER, 1914: 373, fig. 1).	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540570B2EFF277B00FD62680A.taxon	description	[TL: Greece, Poros Island]; name used by VARGA (1967) for Hungarian populations of what proved later to be M. ornata. According to BERNARDI & DE LESSE (1951: 140), a single female “ holotype ” is present in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (MNHNP) (Figs 8 a, b). Fruhstorfer did not routinely designate holotypes but since there is only one specimen it can be regarded as the holotype. From the photograph (Fig. 8 b) of the underside of this specimen, it can be seen that it has centrally thickened triangular black submarginal markings not touching the intervening veins on both fore- and hindwings and also foreshortened tips to the antenna (spatulate). Thus ogygia is M. ornata and not M. phoebe as described originally by Fruhstorfer, a suitable label has been attached (Fig. 8 c).	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540570B2FFF27790BFE626F79.taxon	description	[TL: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Herzegovina, Jablanica] was described from five females in the “ Leonhard collection ” (Leonhard does not appear to be in any list of entomologists and thus was presumably an amateur butterfly collector) and a pair of “ Types ” in Fruhstorfer’s collection (FRUHSTORFER, 1916: 1) in the MNHN, Paris (MNHNP). BERNARDI & DE LESSE (1951: 141) reported only a single male “ holotype ” in Fruhstorfer’s collection but both a male and a female are present in the collection, thus there appear to be two syntypes. A further “ paratype ” (i. e. a syntype) was reported as being in the Natural History Museum, London (VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014: 61).	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540570B2FFF27790BFE626F79.taxon	discussion	Jablanica lies on the Neretva River at an elevation of c. 200 m; VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014: 61) unfortunately misconstrued this as Mount Jablanica, which is on the North Macedonia / Albania border and mostly above 2000 m. The true locality, adjacent to both the Neretva River and Jablanica Lake, suggests a humid biotope typical of M. phoebe; however prior to the building of the dam in 1954, the habitat was more xerophilous. On close inspection of the photographs of the undersides of the two specimens it was concluded that they belonged to M. phoebe as described by Fruhstorfer and in agreement with VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014: 61) and RUSSELL & TENNENT (2016: note 55).	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540560B2FFF2D7D4EFDB26E10.taxon	description	[TL: Portugal, Lissabon {Lisbon}]; BERNARDI & DE LESSE (1951: 141) reported that there were no specimens of this subspecies in Fruhstorfer’s collection in MNHNP. However, Rodolphe Rougeri found a male specimen there. From photographs of the underside it can be concluded that, despite the somewhat triangular shape of the submarginal black markings, they touched the intervening veins, the antennal tips were club shaped and not spatulate and the forewing apices appeared more acute than rounded. This specimen is correctly identified as M. phoebe, as described by Fruhstorfer and in agreement with VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014: 61) and RUSSELL & TENNENT (2016: note 39).	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540560B28FF2D7C69FCA66DD1.taxon	description	[TL: Spain, Castilien, (Cuenca mont.)] was described from three males in the “ Leonhard collection ”. There is a significant statement in the description given by FRUHSTORFER (1917: 19), who said that this subspecies bore a close relationship to both subspecies ogygia from Greece and telona from “ Palästina ” (considered to be near Jerusalem, Israel [HIGGINS, 1941: 335]). Both are morphologically very similar and were considered to be M. ornata (RUSSELL & TENNENT, 2016: notes 59 and 91); however, TÓTH et al. (2014) suggested that M. telona may be a fourth species in this group. HIGGINS (1941: 349) suggested a similarity between guevara and subspecies bethunebakeri (see below). A “ holotype ” male and two male “ paratypes ” (i. e. three syntypes) were recognised by BERNARDI & DE LESSE (1951: 141). HESSELBARTH et al. (1995: 1030 / 1031 stated that they should be considered more correctly as lectotype and paralectotypes, with which the present authors agree. An inspection of the Fruhstorfer collection in MNHNP by RR revealed that there are three male specimens present, two of which have “ PARATYPE ” labels attached (presumably, since they were the first to mention “ paratypes ”, by BERNARDI & DE LESSE, 1951: 141) but the third specimen has no “ type ” label. The question arose: was this third specimen one of the syntypes with the “ HOLOTYPE ” label missing? A close inspection of the wing and antenna morphology from high quality photographs (Figs 9 a, b, 10 a, b, 11 a, b) indicated that the specimens all belong the same species, M. ornata, in contrast to VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014: 61), based on studies of genitalia, and RUSSELL & TENNENT (2016: 48, note 41), who both considered, prior to the confirmation of the presence of M. ornata in Spain, that all Iberian subspecies were of M. phoebe.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540560B28FF2D7C69FCA66DD1.taxon	discussion	Inspection of the labels (Figs 9 c, 10 c, 11 c) revealed no indication that any of the specimens had originated from the Leonhard collection. The location labels were similar in all respects, being handwritten as follows: “ Castilien [underlined with printed dots] / Cuenca / mont. / 1900 Korb ”. Conversely, the identification labels, also handwritten, were not all the same: the two specimens with “ PARATYPE ” labels were handwritten as follows: “ M. phoebe / guevara Fruhst. ”, whereas the label of the “ non-type ” specimen was written in a different hand as follows: “ Melitaea phoebe / ssp. guevara Frhst. / 1917 (Soc. Ent. p. 19) ”. Although it is possible that this is the specimen observed by BERNARDI & DE LESSE (1958), it cannot be assumed that this is their presumed ‘ holotype’. Since it is possible that the specimen with the “ HOLOTYPE ” label may turn up in the future, it was considered unwise to designate a lectotype under these circumstances. We here formally identify the three available syntypes as Melitaea ornata guevara Fruhstorfer, 1917, comb. n.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540510B28FF277E2FFE066FA9.taxon	description	[TL: Italy, Sicily, Palermo]: there are four male and one female specimens present in the Museo Zoologico de “ La Specola ” dell’Università, Firenza, Italy (cf. RUSSELL & BARTOLOZZI, 2019: Fig. 1). The male, which was figured by VERITY (1950: 152; Tav. 43: fig. 63) and given more accurate locality data: “ San Martino della Scala m. 800 (Monreale Palermo); 5 V ”, is here designated as the lectotype of Melitaea phoebe emipunica (Figs 12 a, b). The squat triangular submarginal black markings barely touching the black intervening veins (Fig. 12 b) clearly place the taxon emipunica with M. ornata. M. phoebe has not so far been proven to occur in Sicily (RUSSELL, 2018: 258). The labels on the pin (Fig. 12 c) are as follows: black print on yellow paper “ Monreale (San Martino) m. 800 / PALERMO ISOLA di SICILIA / 6 Maggio 1919 Querci ”; black print on white paper “ Ex coll. R. Verity ”; black print on pink paper “ Syntypus ”; printed on yellow paper “ FIGURATO DA / R. VERITY FARF. D. IT. / TAV. 43 (hand-written) / FIG. 63 (hand-written) ”; Black print on red paper “ Melitaea ornata / emipunica Verity 1919 / LECTOTYPUS / P. RUSSELL & L. BARTOLOZZI 2019 ”. Both VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014) and RUSSELL & TENNENT (2016) agreed with this determination.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540510B28FF277DA7FDED69BD.taxon	distribution	[TL: Italy, Calabria, Aspromonte, 1400 m]; this form was described on page 222 and the uppersides figured on tav. II figs 4 11 and 5 00, from which it appears to be a fairly heavily marked form, hence Verity’s suggestion that the ab. totila of Stauder (see above) equated to this subspecies. The undersides were not figured by Turati but the forewing apices appear rounded as in M. ornata. According to CONCI & POGGI (1996) the collection of E. Turati is in the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Italy, (MRSN). NEKRUTENKO (1993: 129) listed the type material of Turati in this museum and referring to this subspecies stated that there were two female syntypes from the Aspromonte Mountains in the Province of Reggio Calabria, Italy and identified them as Melitaea phoebe, being unaware of the specific separation of M. ornata.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540510B28FF277DA7FDED69BD.taxon	discussion	Unfortunately, the entomology collections in the Turin Museum are not currently accessible for administrative reasons and it has not been possible to inspect type material. However, it is possible to make a speculative identification, based on current knowledge of the distributions of the two species. Based on the collecting locality, this subspecies is almost certainly M. ornata as M. phoebe sensu strictu has not been recorded this far south in peninsular Italy; its limit appears to be Calabria, Cosenza, Monte Martinelli (RUSSELL & PATEMAN, 2011), where M. ornata also occurs. Six males and one female of this subspecies are present in the Rothschild collection in the Natural History Museum London (Russell and Tennent, pers obs.). This taxon was not considered by VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014) but RUSSELL & TENNENT (2016: 51, note 67) suggested it was M. ornata because of its location in southern peninsular Italy.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540510B28FF277BB3FC9268CD.taxon	description	(223 and Tav. II, figs 10 - 12) [TL: Italy, Roma, Monte Autore]; from the figure 10, the male forewing apices appear distinctly acute as in M. phoebe. NEKRUTENKO (1993: 129) listed the Type material of Turati in the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Italy, (MRSN) and referring to this subspecies stated that there were two male and three female syntypes from Monte Autore, Province of Rome, Italy; he identified them as Melitaea phoebe, a conclusion with which we cannot argue.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540510B28FF277BB3FC9268CD.taxon	discussion	In view of the current long-term closure of the museum we cannot be sure of their identity, but M. phoebe seems most likely. No specimen of M. ornata has been observed in peninsular Italy north of San Marco Catola, Foggia, Apulia, Italy (c. 41 º 30 ’ N.) (CAGNETTA 2016: 246). Similarly the aberration sterlineata Turati, 1921: (Fig. 12), with an almost unmarked discal area of the forewing and from the same locality, is most likely M. phoebe; VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014: 61) and RUSSELL & TENNENT (2016: 52, note 75) agreed with this determination.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540510B29FF277AC3FB9F6EB1.taxon	distribution	[TL: Italy, Sicily, Palermo District]. Apparently the Sicilian Macrolepidoptera collection of É. E. Ragusa was sold to Walter, Lord Rothschild (HORN et al., 1990). There are nine males and five females in his collection at NHM, London, UK. (Russell and Tennent, pers. obs.); no indication that the material was syntypic was present on any of the data labels. According to GREGORI (1926) another part of the butterfly collection of Énrico Ragusa was in the Instituto di Zoologia, Universita di Napoli, Portici, Italy (ZIUP); at our request Roberta Improta made a thorough search of the Naples Museum collections but was unable to find any of Ragusa’s M. phoebe specimens (see Acknowledgements). From the NHM specimens, which are clearly M. ornata, a male captured by Ragusa in the District of Palermo is herewith designated as a lectotype. The specific characters of ornata are clearly visible in the photographs of the lectotype (Figs 13 a, b). M. phoebe has not been reported from Sicily (RUSSELL, 2018). The labels on the pin of the lectotype (Fig. 13 c) are as follows: on beige paper, part printed part handwritten “ Prov. Palermo / Local. V [all] Corta / Data 10.5. [1] 917 / Coll. E. Ragusa ”; on beige paper, printed “ Sicily, / coll. E. Ragusa ”; on purple-bordered circular white paper printed “ LECTO- / TYPE ”; on beige paper printed “ Rothschild / Bequest / B. M. 1939 - 1. ”; on white paper printed “ LECTOTYPE / Melitaea phoebe forma / punicata Ragusa, 1919 / Designated by Russell / & Tennent, 2019 ”.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540510B29FF277AC3FB9F6EB1.taxon	discussion	We here designate the remaining 13 syntypes as paralectotypes, of which six have the following labels: on beige paper, printed “ Sicilien ” / hand written “ Ficuzza / 5 ” / printed “ Geo. C. Kr. ”; on beige paper printed “ Sicily / coll. E. Ragusa ”; on beige paper printed “ Rothschild / Bequest / B. M. 1939 - 1. ”; white circle with blue surround printed “ PARA- / LECTO- / TYPE ”; on white paper printed “ PARALECTOTYPE / Melitaea phoebe forma / punicata Ragusa, 1919 / Designated by Russell / & Tennent, 2019 ”, 4 have the following labels: on beige paper with black surround handwritten: “ M. Cuccio / 30.4. [1] 916 ”; on beige paper printed: “ Sicily / coll. E. Ragusa ”; on beige paper printed “ Rothschild / Bequest / B. M. 1939 - 1. ”; white circle with blue surround printed “ PARA- / LECTO- / TYPE ”; on white paper printed “ PARALECTOTYPE / Melitaea phoebe forma / punicata Ragusa, 1919 / Designated by Russell / & Tennent, 2019 ” and finally three have the following labels: on beige paper printed: “ Sicily / coll. E. Ragusa ”; on beige paper printed “ Rothschild / Bequest / B. M. 1939 - 1. ”; white circle with blue surround printed “ PARA- / LECTO- / TYPE ”; on white paper printed “ PARALECTOTYPE / Melitaea phoebe forma / punicata Ragusa, 1919 / Designated by Russell / & Tennent, 2019 ”. We here formally identify all 14 specimens as Melitaea ornata punicata Ragusa, 1921.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540500B2AFF2D7C8EFD9F6E6D.taxon	description	[TL: Spain: Andalucía, Granada, Sierra Nevada]. According to MACIÀ et al. (2017) there is a solitary male syntype in the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona [MZB], Spain; there are three Syntypes in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. PR and RLH hereby designate one of these syntypes from Harvard as a lectotype (Figs 14 a, b). All three specimens have the same data (Fig. 14 c); from the high-quality photograph of the underside of this specimen (Fig. 14 b) it can be seen that it exhibits the morphological traits of M. ornata, although some of the centrally thickened submarginal markings on the ventral surface touch the intervening veins. The remaining three syntypes are here designated as paralectotypes.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540500B2AFF2D7C8EFD9F6E6D.taxon	discussion	There is a pair of specimens in the Rothschild collection at the NHM in London (pers obs.) which may have been part of the syntype series, due to the similarity of their labels, and which can be identified clearly as M. ornata. Also MANLEY & ALLCARD (1970: plate 10, figs 1 - 4) figured two pairs of this subspecies from Sierra de Alfacar and Sierra Nevada, Granada, taken between 14 and 29 June 1959 at circa 1100 - 1650 m; the two figured undersides show the typical characters of M. ornata. It has been brought to the first author’s attention that a new subspecies for those M. ornata from various locations in Spain had been created - Melitaea ornata baetica, Muñoz-Sariot & Sánchez-Mesa, 2019. This name was changed later (cf MUÑOZ-SARIOT & SÁNCHEZ-MESA, 2019 a and b) to M. ornata pseudornata Muñoz-Sariot & Sánchez-Mesa, 2019; the name baetica was preoccupied by Melitaea baetica Rambur, 1858, a synonym for what is now known as Euphydryas desfontainii (Godart, 1819). The holotype of M. ornata pseudornata [TL: Quéntar, Sierra Nevada, Granada, 1300 m, emerged 29 - V- 2018, from larva collected on 15 - IV- 2018] bears a remarkable resemblance to the lectotype of bethunebakeri designated above (Figs 14 a, b), which also originated from the Sierra Nevada, 1600 m in 1925 (Fig. 14 c): apart from the rather more acute forewing apices, which can be variable, of the taxon pseudornata, the antennal and wing morphology of both the holotype of pseudornata and the lectotype of bethunebakeri are almost identical. The subspecies Melitaea ornata pseudornata Muñoz-Sariot & Sánchez-Mesa, 2019 is hereby placed in synonymy with M. ornata bethunebakeri Sagarra, 1926, comb. n. and syn. n.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540530B2AFF277C63FEB869BD.taxon	distribution	[TL: Mont-Dore, Puy-de-Dôme, France]. This is a name given by Verity to an unnamed race described but not named by FRUHSTORFER (1918: 42). This was a small race with part of the forewings and all of hindwings covered in a greenish suffusion. HIGGINS (1941: 340) mistakenly gave the description of these specimens as being covered in black suffusion; this actually applied to the previous description of crassenigra Verity, 1928, given to specimens from Gironde, Lozère and Pyrénées Orientales (VERITY, 1928: 162). There were no specimens of this subspecies extant in Verity’s collection in Florence in the early 1980 ’ s (KUDRNA, 1983) and thus no further comment can be made; the name was included here simply to correct the description given by Higgins and to confirm that the problem of identity is insoluble until further samples are collected from the Mont-Dore area. This taxon was not considered by VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014) but RUSSELL & TENNENT (2016: 47, note 38) considered it to be M. phoebe, based on its location.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540530B2AFF277BB3FEF068CD.taxon	description	[TL: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bosnia, Maklen (also spelt Makljen) Pass]; Gaede described (page 207) this subspecies and figured the upperside (Plate 13, d 5). Gaede attributed this name to Fruhstorfer, but without a date; like HIGGINS (1941: 340) the present authors were unable to find any original description by Fruhstorfer. This subspecies was not mentioned by VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014). The specimen figured and the description by Gaede indicated that the apices of the forewings were quite acute, indicating that this subspecies belongs to M. phoebe, as described. Gaede also indicated an association with the subspecies narenta Fruhstorfer, 1917, from Herzegovina (see above), also identified here as M. phoebe. No indication of the precise location or date of capture was provided, making for difficulties in finding this subspecies at the location given, which has a maximum elevation of 1123 m (Yugoslav Coast, Lascelles, scale 1: 300,000, dated 1988 / 9). Until such time as further specimens become available, this identification requires confirmation.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540530B2BFF277AC3FD1E690D.taxon	description	[TL: Spain, Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Villacabras]; the only two known specimens of this subspecies, a male and a female, were considered to be “ types ” by SAGARRA (1931: 114), who stated that they were taken by Querci on 24 August 1928. These two specimens are housed in the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona [now MZB], Spain and were designated as “ Holotype ” male and “ Paratype ” female by MACIÀ et al. (2017: 175) but no labels were attached to the specimens indicating this action. From high quality photographs (Figs 15 a, b) provided to the authors by Masó (see acknowledgements), both specimens were identified as M. ornata. A “ holotype ” label was added subsequently to the pin of the male and an “ allotype ” label to that of the female. The data labels on the pins providing the location and date of capture (Fig. 15 c) are old preprinted labels (both specimens), with data reading: “? (obscured, if ever present). 8.1926 ” but this has been over-written, presumably by Querci himself, as “ 24 June 1928 ”. The authors SAGARRA (1931: 114), MANLEY & ALLCARD (1970: 40) and MACIÀ, CABALLERO-LÓPEZ, & MASÓ (2017: 175) considered that the original printed month, “ 8 ”, (but not the printed year) indicated the date of capture. If the date on the printed label was correct, why would it have been over-written by Querci? The present authors consider that the date of capture was in fact the explicitly added, over-written date, “ 24 June 1928 ”. This fits better with the usual univoltinity of M. ornata, both sexes of which would be expected to be on the wing at an elevation of 1200 m in June (RUSSELL & PATEMAN, 2011). The labels on the pin of the holotype (Fig. 15 c) are as follows: on white paper with black surround printed in black “ 73 - 4026 / MZB ”; on beige paper printed in black “ NUEVA CASTILLA (Cuenca) / Villacabras 1200 m. / [?]. 8.1926, [over-written by hand] 24 June 1928 Querci ”; on white paper with double black surround printed “ Melitaea phoebe / ornatiformis Sagarra, / 1930 ” / black line / “ Melitaea phoebe (Goeze, / 1779) / R. Macià rev. 2015 ”; on red paper with black surround printed “ MZB / HOLOTYPE / Melitaea phoebe / ornatiformis / Sagarra, 1931 ”; on white paper with black surround printed “ Melitaea ornata / ornatiformis / Sagarra, 1931 / Determined Russell, / 2019. We here formally identify the two specimens as Melitaea ornata ornatiformis Sagarra, 1931, comb. n.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540530B2BFF277AC3FD1E690D.taxon	discussion	It is of interest to note that there is a pair of Melitaea specimens in the Rothschild collection in the NHM in London with the same printed data labels. One is a female with a locality “ Reillo 1000 m ”, similarly over-written, again presumably by the captor - Querci, with the same date, “ 24 June 1928 ”. The other is a male, likewise captured by Querci, and is labelled “ Huelamo 1200 m ”, with a date of “ 6. 8. 1928 ”: the day “ 6 ” is handwritten, the month “ 8 ” printed and unaltered and the year has the printed “ 1926 ” with the “ 6 ” overwritten by an “ 8 ”. It is probable that this specimen may be M. phoebe but it is acknowledged that it could represent a second brood M. ornata. This illustrates the difficulty in identifying museum material of these two species when dates of capture, which can be of significance, are unclear, being overwritten in faded ink on preprinted labels.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540520B24FF2D7AC3FDDB6C89.taxon	description	[TL: Asturian Mountains 4000 ft. (example illustrated by HIGGINS [Plate 14, fig. 12] from Espinama, Picos de Europa, Spain, June 30 ‘ [19] 35). In the NHM, London, there are 10 males and 2 females in the Lionel Higgins collection, captured on 30 - VI- 1935, the elevation is not given on the data labels but HIGGINS (1941: 337) stated that they were taken at 4000 ft. (= circa 1225 m). The rather acute forewing apices, club shaped antenna and black submarginal markings in some but not all specimens touching the intervening veins suggest that they are M. phoebe and not M. ornata (Figs 18 a, b). The labels on the pin of the holotype are shown in Fig. 18 c. This name was overlooked by VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014) but RUSSELL & TENNENT (2016: 50, note 58) suggested it was M. phoebe. The subspecies is included here to demonstrate that submarginal markings can be confusing. We do not regard our identification as conclusive, since the holotype and some of the syntypes exhibit some characters of M. ornata and this population would benefit from further study.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540520B2BFF2D7B03FBD768CD.taxon	distribution	[TL: uncertain - three syntypes from two different localities in Greece: Salonica (= Thessalonica), Macedonia @ 1000 ft. (= circa 300 m) and Olympus, bordering Thessaly / Macedonia @ 2500 ft. (= circa 750 m)]. Although the name postogygia has no formal nomenclatural standing as part of a quadrinomial, it is considered here because of its association with the names ogygia and nigrogygia, which are associated with M. ornata (cf above, and RUSSELL & BARTOLOZZI, 2019). Verity’s description (1938: (16 )) indicated that the name was proposed for a second generation of “ M. phoebe ogygia ”. This is unusual: M. ornata is generally univoltine (RUSSELL & PATEMAN, 2011), although second generations occur when rearing the species in the U. K., if the larvae are exposed to very wet conditions (RUSSELL & PATEMAN, 2013).	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD0540520B2BFF2D7B03FBD768CD.taxon	discussion	Examination of the photographs of the three syntypes and their associated labels revealed that the two syntypic males from Salonica, taken 12 and 13 August 1936 are almost certainly M. ornata (Figs 16 a, b, c); whereas a female from Olympus taken on “ Aug [ust]. 17, 1935 ”, is M. phoebe (Figs 17 a, b & c). All three specimens were captured by Romei. These identifications, admittedly based only on antenna and wing morphology, were agreed by John Coutsis and Jim Pateman. (See Acknowledgements). The designation of a lectotype in this case is not relevant because the name postogygia is part of a quadrinomial (infrasubspecific) and thus not nomenclaturally significant.	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD05405D0B24FF277E87FCC56950.taxon	description	[TL: France, Var, La Sainte Baume, Nans-les-Pins, 300 m], the syntypic series consists of seven specimens (4 11 and 3 00) from the Type Locality taken between 24 May 1926 and 24 May 1936 and held in the Museo Zoologico de “ La Specola ” dell’Università, Firenza, Italy. From an examination of the photographs of the undersides of all seven specimens, it would appear that they include both M. phoebe and M. ornata. A syntype of each species is illustrated for comparison: one male has morphological characters tending towards those of M. ornata (Figs 19 a, b); another male has characters closely resembling M. phoebe (Figs 20 a & b). Both are labelled as having been taken on the same day, 24 May 1926 (Figs 19 c, 20 c), but handwriting on the data labels suggests by different collectors; this raises the possibility that they were captured some distance apart. The only indication of who captured another of the specimens is a label “ 23 - V- [19] 33 Nans (Var) Foulquier leg. ’’; he must have been accompanied by another collector because there is another label dated ‘ Nans 23 Mai [19] 33 ’ again in a different hand! These two simultaneous captures by different collectors could suggest that the two specimens captured on each occasion (24 May 1926 and 23 May 1933) were taken some distance apart but with the nearest location reference for the data labels both being ‘ Nans’. It is unsurprising that Gédéon Foulquier (1855 - 1941) collected on the Massif de la St. Baume since he lived in Marseille, just to the south of the mountain ridge. Currently, it is not possible to reliably place subtusca with either species. The following Melitaea subspecies described by Fruhstorfer from damp Alpine regions, based on photographs of the syntypes are all M. phoebe, as originally described: koios (1908 b), virgilia (1917 a), sylleion (1917 a), minoa (1917 a), and rovia (1919).	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
03ECBD05405D0B24FF277E87FCC56950.taxon	distribution	Additional subspecies described by Verity and present in the La Specola Museum in Florence, from France, Switzerland and Italy were all examined and confirmed to be Melitaea phoebe: monilata (1919), tusca (1919), crassenigra (1928), subcorythallia (1928), suboccitanica (1928), and medioastricta (1950). The following available names were not considered because of a lack of surviving specimens in what remains of Verity’s collection in Florence: monilataeformis (1919), aethereaeformis (1919), nigroalternans (1919) and postnarenta (1939).	en	Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J., Léger, T. (2020): Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191): 449-472, DOI: 10.57065/shilap.369, URL: https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369
