Melitaea riloensis Zuellich , 1936

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

?112. Melitaea riloensis Zuellich, 1936

Original combination.

" Melitaea cinxia L. var. riloensis Züllich.” Züllich, 1936 Z. Öst. Ent. Ver. 21: 27.

Current combination.

Melitaea cinxia riloensis Züllich, 1936.

Current status.

Junior subjective synonym of Melitaea cinxia clarissa Staudinger.

Type material.

Syntypes 2?? (ZMH 827646-827647) (Fig. 112 ). "COTYPE / Mel. cinxia L. / ? v. riloensis / Z. d. Ö. Ent. V. 1936 / DR. ZÜLLICH, WIEN" // "BULGARIEN JUNI 1923 / RYLA GEB. 1200 bis 1800 m / O. BUBACEK WIEN" // [blank label] // "ZMH 827646"; "COTYPE / Mel. cinxia L. / ? v. riloensis / Z. d. Ö. Ent. V. 1936 / DR. ZÜLLICH, WIEN" // "BULGARIEN JUNI 1923 / RYLA GEB. 1200 bis 1800 m / O. BUBACEK WIEN" // [blank label] // "ZMH 827647".

Type locality.

Bulgaria: "auf dem Steilhang östlich des Riloklosters in einer Höhe von etwa 1200 m." [at a steep slope east of the Rilo monastry at an altitude of about 1200 m]. 1901.

Remarks.

Züllich (1936) proposed this name as a “var.” of M. cinxia (Linnaeus, 1758). According to article 45.6.4 ( ICZN 1999), it is subspecific if first published before 1961 and author expressly used the term “var.”.

Figures

Plate 16. 110. Melitaea athalia tenuicula Verity, 1919; 111. Melitaea varia varissima Verity, 1914; 112. Melitaea cinxia riloensis Zuellich, 1936; 113. Melitaea deione ab. mediofasciata Bubacek, 1926; 114. Melitaea diamina ab. johni Stauder, 1922; 115. Melitaea trivia balcanica Zuellich, 1936; 116. Melitaea trivia catapelioides Stauder, 1918; 117. Melitaea trivia ignasiti de Sagarra, 1926. a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.