Parnassius apollo subsp. rhodopensis, Markowitsch, 1910

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 : 484

rhodopensis Markowitsch, 1910

“ Parnassius apollo L. var. (ab.) rhodopensis nov.” ( Markowitsch 1910: 82). “Hab. Rhodopi, Iablanitza” [ Bulgaria: Rhodope Mountains: Ablanitsa River] ( Markowitsch 1910: 82).

♀ ( Fig. 18 ) with labels: (1) handwritten [in Cyrillic] (on white paper) “6 VII.09. | rYablani- | tsa Zap. Rodopi | pri Kulata”; (2) handwritten [in blue ink] (on white paper) “ P. apollo L | ab. rhodopensis | nov. ab.”; (3) printed (on white paper) “No. L 01249 | NMNHS—Ins.”; (4) printed (on white paper) “ Parnassius apollo | graecus | Ziegler, 1901 ♀ | [line] | S. Abadjiev det. 1999”; (5) printed (on red paper) “ HOLOTYPE ♀ | Parnassius apollo var. (ab.) | rhodopensis Markowitsch, 1910 | Parnassius apollo var. (ab.) | rhodopensis nov. Markowitsch, 1910 | (Beitrag zur Lepidopterenfauna von Rho- | dopen.—Trud. bulg. prir. Druzh. 4: 82) | [line] | label attachment S. Abadjiev 1999”; (6) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01001” .

The original description ( Markowitsch 1910: 82), in Bulgarian, our translation here, clearly mentions single a specimen: “From the butterflies caught on the road along the valley of Yablanitsa River near the place of the old tower, one butterfly [specimen] highly differs from all the hitherto known forms in the following features: a dimension smaller than the typical for apollo L.; black spots on the forewings very large on the upper side, especially the one situated in the cellular space between veins IV2 and VI. No red spots on the forewings. The red spots on the hindwings are strongly developed. The spot between I+II and II2 is very broad and blurred and the one between III1, III2 and III3 is strongly developed as the first one; both of them are not completely surrounded by a black ring. The two remaining spots between veins IV, IV2 and V are also very strongly developed. According to its features this new form stands most closely to wiskotti Oberth. I call this form var. (ab.) rhodopensis on the basis of the above mentioned features.” It was partly repeated in Latin: “Typo minor. Maculae nigrae superne alis anticis valde magnae, precipue illa in cellula inter venis IV2 et VI posita. Alis anticis maculis rubris nonnulis. Maculis rubris superne alis posticis fortiter explicatis. Macula inter venam I+II[1], et II2 posito multo majore et diluta, macula inter venam III[1], III2 et III[3], fortiter explicata, utraeque marginibus nigrus totis nonnullis. Ceteris maculis inter venam IV, IV2 et V positis multo fortiter explicatis. P. apollo v. wiskotti Oberth simillimus.” Obviously infrasubspecific, not an available name, Article 10.2 ( ICZN 1999).

Figures

FIGURES 11–18. Papilionoidea types from NMNHS collection. Fig. 11—Erebia neleus macedonica, paralectotype ♂; Fig. 12—same, lectotype ♀; Fig. 13—Anthocharis gruneri macedonica, lectotype ♂; Fig. 14—same, paralectotype ♀; Fig. 15—E. gorge pirinica, lectotype ♂; Fig. 16—same, paralectotype ♀; Fig. 17—Agriades dardanus kudrnai, syntype ♂; Fig. 18—Parnassius apollo var. (ab.) rhodopensis, ♀.