Colias balcanica 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

?115. Colias balcanica Zuellich, 1936

Original combination.

" Melitaea trivia Schiff. var. balcanica Züllich.” Züllich, 1936 Z. Öst. Ent. Ver. 21: 27.

Current combination.

Melitaea trivia balcanica Züllich, 1936.

Current status.

Junior subjective synonym of Melitaea trivia lathon Fruhstorfer, 1917.

Type material.

Syntypes 2?? (ZMH 827663-827664) (Fig. 115 ). "BULGARIEN JUNI 1928 / RYLA GEB. 1200 bis 1800 m / O. BUBACEK" // [blank label] // "COTYPE / Mel. trivia / ? v. Colias balcanica / Z. d. Ö. Ent. V. 1936 / DR. ZÜLLICH, WIEN" // "ZMH 827663"; "BULGARIEN JUNI 1928 / RYLA GEB. 1200 bis 1800 m / O. BUBACEK" // [blank label] // "COTYPE / Mel. trivia / ? v. Colias balcanica / Z. d. Ö. Ent. V. 1936 / DR. ZÜLLICH, WIEN" // "ZMH 827664".

Type locality.

Bulgaria: "in den gebirgigen Teilen der zentralen und östlichen Balkanhalbinsel (Krain, Bosnien, Herzegowina etc.)". [in the mountainous parts of the central and eastern Balkan peninsula].

Remarks.

Züllich (1936) proposed this name as a variety of M. trivia ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775). 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.