Lycaena peninsulae Verity, 1923

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

?87. Lycaena peninsulae Verity, 1923

Original combination.

" Lycaena euphemus , Hüb. (a) race peninsulae, mihi" Verity, 1923 Ent. Rec. 35 Suppl. (7).

Current combination.

Phengaris euphemus peninsulae (Verity, 1923).

Current status.

Valid subspecies.

Original material.

Labelled as “Type” 1? (ZMH 833468) (Fig. 87 ). "peninsulae Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 10.VI.1937 / Querci / 1300 m " // [blank label] // "ZMH 833468 ".

Original locality.

Italy: "Sibillini Mts. in the Marche, below Bolognola, at 1000 m".

Remarks.

Verity (1923) proposed this name as a race of L. euphemus Hübner, 1799-1800. According to Kudrna (1983: 35), this race represents an available subspecific name. However, the year on the specimen labels (1937) indicate specimens were collected 14 years after description (1923) from the same location (i.e., Italy: Bolognola) the original type material was collected. As a result, the black label of the specimens treated as “type” by Verity 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, this specimen is erroneously labelled as type, should be annotated as "Not a Type" and are treated here as “Non-type” specimen.

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.