Polyommatus f. squalida Verity, 1920

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

93. Polyommatus f. squalida Verity, 1920

Original combination.

" Polyommatus meleager , Esp., race macra, mihi,? form squalida, mihi" Verity, 1920 Ent. Rec. 32:145.

Current combination.

Polyommatus daphnis macra f. squalida Verity, 1920.

Current status.

Infrasubspecific and hence unavailable name.

Original material.

Labelled as “Type” 2?? (ZMH 833485-833486) (Fig. 93 ). " squalida Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 15.VII.1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833485"; " squalida Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 3 Ag 1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833486 ".

Original locality.

Italy: "Mt. Sibillina, 1200-1300 m".

Remarks.

Verity (1920) proposed this name as a form of P. meleager macra Verity, 1920. According to Kudrna (1983: 39), this name is unavailable and denotes a race and is infrasubspecific and hence unavailable. Papilio meleager Esper, 1779 is a junior subjective synonym of Papilio daphnis [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775. The year on the specimen labels (1937) indicate specimens were collected 17 years after description (1920) 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 13. 85. Phengaris alcon f. lunulata (Warnecke, 1942); 86. Phengaris arionides f. selzeri (Warnecke, 1924); 87. Phengaris euphemus peninsulae (Verity, 1923); 88. Cupido argiades ab. depuncta (Hirschke, 1903); 89. Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damon ausonia (Verity, 1913); 90. Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) pfeifferi (Brandt, 1938); 91. Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) alcestis (Zerny, 1932); 92. Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ardschira (Brandt, 1938); 93. Polyommatus daphnis macra f. squalida Verity, 1920; 94. Polyommatus dorylas r. correpta (Verity, 1920). a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.