Colias balcanica Zuellich , 1929

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

?78. Colias balcanica Zuellich, 1929

Original combination.

" Lycaena argyrognomon Bgstr. f. Colias balcanica " Züllich, 1929 Z. Öst. Ent. Ver. 14: 52.

Current combination.

Plebejus argyrognomon balcanica ( Züllich, 1929).

Current status.

Preoccupied by Lycaena semiargus balcanica Tutt, 1909; replacement name Lycaeides argyrognomon baldur (Hemming, 1934) is the current valid name.

Type material.

Holotype 1? (ZMH 827544) (Fig. 78 ) paratype 1? (ZMH 827543). "BULGARIA OCC. // MON. RILSKI 1200 M / 20. - 31 VII. 1928 // COLL. ZUELLICH" // "Ex Typicalibus / Speciminibus" // “Holotype” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing Nr 20, 1960" // ZMH 827544"; "BULGARIA OCC. // MON. RILSKI 1400 M / 20 VI. - 6 VII. 1928 // COLL. ZUELLICH" // "Ex Typicalibus / Speciminibus" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing Nr 20, 1960" // ZMH 827543".

Type locality.

Bulgaria: "MON. RILSKI" [Monastery Rilski].

Remarks.

Züllich (1929) proposed this name as a form of L. argyrognomon ( Bergsträsser, 1779). According to article 45.6.4 ( ICZN 1999), it is subspecific if first published before 1961 and author expressly used the term “form”.

Figures

Plate 12. 73. Lycaena virgaureae emilianus f. quercii (Turati, 1923); 74. Agriades pheretiades andarabi (Forster, 1938); 75. Aricia anteros f. altera (Zuellich, 1929); 76. Aricia anteros r. modicior Verity, 1938; 77. Plebejus idas uliginosa (Dannehl, 1921); 78. Plebejus argyrognomon balcanica (Zuellich, 1929); 79. Eumedonia eumedon mayencis Eitschberger & Steiniger, 1975; 80. Eumedonia eumedon moenus Eitschberger & Steiniger, 1975; 81. Freyeria trochylus persa (Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937); 82. Freyeria trochylus persa ab. pauper (Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937); 83. Glaucopsyche alexis parvandereggi Verity, 1938; 84. Lysandra coridon sibyllina (Verity, 1916). a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.