Colias myrmidone subsp. balcanica, Rebel, 1901

Abadjiev, Stanislav & Langourov, Mario, 2020, The type specimens of Papilionoidea in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 4790 (3), pp. 473-490 : 474-475

balcanica Rebel, 1901

“ Colias Myrmidone Esp. v. Balcanica Rbl.” ( Rebel 1901: 134). Type locality: after lectotype data label, Bosna and Herzegovina: Vucja Bara, here fixed; see also Rebel (1904: 139, 142): “Vucija bara, Hochtal (1246 [m]) zwischen der ‘Bjelasica, Berg (1867 [m]) südwestl. von Gacko’ und der ‘Baba (Djed), Berg (1737 [m]) westl. von Gacko’”.

Paralectotypes 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ with labels:

[1 ♂] ( Fig. 3 ) (1) printed (on white paper) “Vucija bara | 19. VII. 1900 ”; (2) printed (on white paper) “No. L 03651 | NMNHS—Ins.”; (3) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01002”;

[2 ♀] ( Fig. 4 ) (1) printed (on white paper) “No. L 03649 | NMNHS—Ins.”; (2) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS- INV-T-01003”;

[3 ♀] ( Fig. 5 ) (1) printed (on white paper) “No. L 03650 | NMNHS—Ins.”; (2) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS- INV-T-01004”;

[4 ♀] (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Bosn. Rbl. | Trebevic | 5. VII. 98 ”; (2) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Collectio | Princ. Bulg. | Bosn. ”; (3) printed (on white paper) “No. L 03627 | NMNHS—Ins.”; (4) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS- INV-T-01005”;

paralectotypes 1–3 with additional, printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Collectio | Princ. Bulg. | Herceg. ”; paralectotypes 2, 3 with additional, (1) handwritten (on white paper) “Vucija bara | 22. VII..”; (2) printed (on white paper) “Hercegovina | Rebel, ’99”; all the 4 paralectotypes with additional, printed (on red paper) “ PARALECTOTYPE ♂ [♀ respectively] | Colias myrmidone balcanica | Rebel, 1901 | Ab- adjiev & Langourov design 2020”.

While working on the “Butterflies of Bulgaria ” series, the senior author received via Dr Martin Lödl photos of types of Colias caucasica balcanica , kept at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NHMW) and one of them was recently illustrated ( Abadjiev 1993: Pl. XVI: Fig. 8 ). Just repeating the label, the same specimen was reported as “lectoholotype” ( Abadjiev 1992: 45). It is also illustrated in Rebel (1904: Tafel IV: Fig. 2 ). Later Hesselbarth, van Oorschot & Wagener (1995: 328: footnote 1) stated: “Typenmaterial: Lectoholotypus ♀ …; design. Abadjiev (1992: 45) …”. It is necessary to stress upon the fact that the red label ending with “LECTOHOLOTYPUS ♀ ” and a des- ignation of a lectotype was never done. To avoid future confusions and for stability of nomenclature we think such a designation necessary and following Article 74 ( ICZN 1999) the same specimen is here designated as lectotype for Colias myrmidone balcanica Rebel, 1901 . Additional paralectotypes exist in the collections of Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien and the Natural History Museum, London ( Abadjiev 2002: 16). Treated as a different subspecies, Colias caucasica balcanica Rebel, 1901 ( Wagener 1990: 59) , endemic for the Balkans .

Figures

FIGURES 3–10. Papilionoidea types from NMNHS collection. Fig. 3—Colias caucasica balcanica, paralectotype ♂; Fig. 4—same, paralectotype ♀; Fig. 5—same, paralectotype ♀; Fig. 6—Erebia ligea ab. borisi, ♂; Fig. 7—E. neleus centrorilica, paratype ♂; Fig. 8—same, paratype ♀; Fig. 9—E. neleus kinoshitai, holotype ♂; Fig. 10—same, paratype ♀.

FIGURES 1–2. The National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. Fig. 1—the main entrance, facing Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard; Fig. 2—Entomology Depot.