Colias ab. theia Warnecke, 1912

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

47. Colias ab. theia Warnecke, 1912

Original combination.

" Colias aurora Esp. ? ab. theia" Warnecke, 1912 Soc. Ent. 27: 68.

Current combination.

Colias heos ab. theia Warnecke, 1912.

Current status.

Infrasubspecific and hence unavailable name.

Original material.

Labelled as “Lectotype” 1? (ZMH 827609) (Fig. 47 ). "Kentei- / Gebirge" // " Gebr. Dörries leg.1889 / Erworb. E. coll. / Dörries sen. 1917" // "f. theia Warnecke / Die Type ist im Zool. Mus. Hamburg!" // "L. 38 / Lekto-Type / Col. aurora f. theia warn." // "Katalog Nr. / L 1750" // " Sig. G. Warnecke / Eing. Nr. 5, 1945" // "ZMH 827609" .

Original locality.

Amur [Russia].

Remarks.

Papilio aurora Esper, 1783 is a junior primary homonym of Papilio aurora Cramer, [1780]. The former is currently known as Colias heos (Herbst, 1792) and the latter is known as Colotis aurora (Cramer, [1780]). Grieshuber and Lamas (2007) provided a nomenclatural list of all available and unavailable names in the genus Colias and clearly stated that Colias aurora [ab.] theia is infrasubspecific and thus not an available name.

Figures

Plate 8. 45. Colias heos ab. crocopepla Warnecke, 1912; 46. Colias heos ab. rhododactyla Warnecke, 1912; 47. Colias heos ab. theia Warnecke, 1912; 48. Colias caucasica balcanica f. rebeli Schawerda, 1906; 49. Colias cocandica tatarica Bang-Haas, 1915; 50. Colias wiskotti aurea Kotzsch, 1936. a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.