Pieris r. exigua Verity, 1923

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

65. Pieris r. exigua Verity, 1923

Original combination.

" Pieris ergane, H.-G. race exigua, mihi." Verity, 1923 Ent. Rec. 35 Suppl. (18).

Current combination.

Pieris ergane r. exigua Verity, 1923.

Current status.

Infrasubspecific and hence unavailable name.

Original material.

Labelled as “Cotype” 2?? (ZMH 835577-835578) (Fig. 65 ). "exigua Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 7 Ag 1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 835577"; "exigua Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 8 Ag 1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 835578".

Original locality.

Italy: "Upper Fargno Valley, at 1400 m., in the Sibillini Mts."

Remarks.

Verity (1923) proposed this name as a race of P. ergane (Geyer, 1828). According to Kudrna (1983), this name in unavailable because it is a seasonal form and also a nomen nudum. The year on the specimen labels (1937) indicate specimens were collected 14 years after description (1923) 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 two specimens are erroneously labelled as types, should be annotated as "Not a Type" and are treated here as “Non-type” specimens.

Figures

Plate 10. 59. Colotis evagore nouna f. vernalis alticola auresiaca (Stauder, 1913); 60. Colotis evagore nouna f. biformata (Stauder, 1913); 61. Colotis evagore nouna f. aestiva pyroleuca (Stauder, 1913); 62. Colotis evagore nouna ab. evagorides (Stauder, 1913); 63. Pieris brassicae italorum Stauder, 1921; 64. Pieris ergane elbursina Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937; 65. Pieris ergane r. exigua Verity, 1923. a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.