Pyrgus picena Verity, 1920

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?170. Pyrgus picena Verity, 1920

Original combination.

" Hesperia foulquieri , Obth., race picena, mihi" Verity, 1920 Ent. Rec. 32: 4.

Current combination.

Pyrgus foulquieri picena (Verity, 1920).

Current status.

Valid subspecies.

Original material.

Labelled as “Type” 4?? (ZMH 833506-833509) (Fig. 170 ). " Picena Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 2 VII 1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833506"; " Picena Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 8 Ag 1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833507"; " Picena Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 8 Ag 1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833508"; " Picena Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 12 Ag 1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833509 ".

Original locality.

Italy: Bolognola, Sibillini Mts.

Remarks.

Verity (1920) proposed this name as a “race” of H. foulquieri Oberthür, 1910. As it was given in trinomy and the content of the description clearly indicates that a geographical race was meant, this name is available as subspecific (article 45.6 ICZN 1999). 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 four specimens are erroneously labelled as types, should be annotated as "Not a Type" and are treated here as “Non-type” specimens.

Figures

Plate 25. 164. Satyrus actaea rossarmenia Bang-Haas; 165. Hamearis lucina ab. friesi Meinhard; 166. Carcharodus alceae wissmanni Warnecke, 1934; 167. Spialia orbifer orbifer v. postesseloides Verity, 1938; 168. Pyrgus alveus centralitaliae (Verity, 1920); 169. Pyrgus badachschana (Alberti, 1939); 170. Pyrgus foulquieri picena (Verity, 1920); 171. Pyrgus sidae ab. alboradiata (Bubacek, 1926). a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.