Lycaena ahasveros Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937

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?99. Lycaena ahasveros Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937

Original combination.

" Lycaena (Glaucopsyche) panagaea , H.-Sch. ssp. ahasveros ssp. nov." Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937 Ent. Rec. 49: Suppl. (2).

Current combination.

Turanana panagaea ahasveros (Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937).

Type material.

Paratypes 14?? (ZMH 827556-827569) (Fig. 99 ). "IRAN: / Keredj (1700 m.) / 6.5.1936 / Brandt" // "Cotypus / L. panagaea / ssp. ahasveros / ByS+Brdt" // " ssp. ahasveros / ByS + Brdt." // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827556"; "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827557"; "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827558"; "IRAN: / Keredj (1200 m.) / 6.5.1936 / Brandt" // "Cotypus / L. panagaea / ssp. ahasveros / ByS+Brdt" // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827559"; "IRAN: / Keredj (1700 m.) / 6.5.1936 / Brandt" // "Cotypus / L. panagaea / ssp. ahasveros / ByS+Brdt" // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827560"; "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827561"; "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827562"; "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827563"; "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827564"; "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827565"; "IRAN: / Keredj (1700 m.) / 10.5.1936 / Brandt" // "Cotypus / L. panagaea / ssp. ahasveros / ByS+Brdt" // " ssp. ahasveros / ByS + Brdt." // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827566"; "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827567"; "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827568"; “X” // "Iran: / Keredj 1700 m / V.1936 / leg. F. Brandt / coll. Bytinski-Salz" // “Paratypoid” // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827569".

Type locality.

Iran: Tehran, "Keredj 1700 m." [Karaj].

Current status.

Valid subspecies.

Figures

Plate 14. 95. Polyommatus escheri olympena (Verity, 1936); 96. Polyommatus icarus ab. privata (Schoenfeld, 1924); 97. Polyommatus (Sublysandra) nuksani (Forster, 1937); 98. Tarucus balkanica ab. clorinda Verity, 1938; 99. Turanana panagaea ahasveros (Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937); 100. Satyrium ilicis syra (Pfeiffer, 1932); 101. Satyrium spini brevicaudis (Vorbrodt, 1911); 102. Lycaena cyllarus v. romana Hartig; 103. Lysandra coridon ab. albipunctata Hartig. a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.