Agriades r. correpta Verity, 1920

Zahiri, Reza, Nazari, Vazrick, Rajaei, Hossein, Wiemers, Martin, Fatahi, Maryam, Seidel, Matthias, Dalsgaard, Thure & Husemann, Martin, 2021, ? An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part II. superfamily Papilionoidea, Evolutionary Systematics 5 (2), pp. 193-261 : 193

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.63435

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:984E15D8-80E0-4B7D-A84F-92BB0AD4EA73

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1102F764-D14F-5BB2-80A4-55577D2EC71E

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scientific name

Agriades r. correpta Verity, 1920
status

 

94. Agriades r. correpta Verity, 1920

Original combination.

" Agriades hylas , Esp., race correpta, mihi" Verity, 1920 Ent. Rec. 32: 144.

Current combination.

Polyommatus dorylas r. correpta (Verity, 1920).

Current status.

Infrasubspecific and hence unavailable name.

Original material.

Labelled as “Type” 4?? (ZMH 833489-833492) (Fig. 94 View Plate 13 ). "correpta Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 15.VII.1937 / Querci / 1500 m " // [blank label] // "ZMH 833489"; "correpta Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 14.VII.1937 / Querci / 1400 m " // [blank label] // "ZMH 833490"; "correpta Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 29.VII.1937 / Querci / 1600 m " // [blank label] // "ZMH 833491"; "correpta Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 12.VII.1937 / Querci / 1500 m " // [blank label] // "ZMH 833492 ".

Original locality.

Italy: "Bolognola, Central Italy".

Remarks.

Verity (1920) proposed this name as a race of A. hylas (Esper, 1779). According to Kudrna (1983: 26), this name is unavailable as it denotes a seasonal form which is infrasubspecific and hence unavailable. The year on the specimen labels (1937) indicate specimens were collected 17 years after description (1920) from the same location the original holotype material was collected. As a result, the black label of the specimens treated as “types” is erroneous. The specimen collected from the same geographical location from which the type specimen was collected is called topotype. According to ICZN (1999), a topotype has no formal standing and is not regulated by the Code. Therefore, these four specimens are erroneously labelled as types, should be annotated as "Not a Type" and are treated here as “Non-type” specimens.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lycaenidae

Genus

Agriades