Melanargia galathea minor Meinhard

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

?161. ab. Melanargia galathea minor Meinhard

Original combination.

Melanargia galathea v. sakaria ab. minor Meinhard.

Current status.

"in litteris" name and hence not available.

Original material.

Labelled as “Type” 1? (ZMH 835597) (Fig. 161 ). “Type” // 7/7 1920 / Göttingen / Warteberg" // "ZMH 835597" .

Remarks.

This taxon cannot be found in the literature. As stated by articles 45.6.1 and 45.6.2 ( ICZN 1999) it is deemed to be an infrasubspecific name (the author used “aberration”, “ab.”, or the author expressly gave it infrasubspecific rank) and is hence unavailable.

Figures

Plate 24. 158. Pyronia cecilia arminii (Stauder, 1916); 159. Satyrus ferula liupiuschani Bang-Haas, 1933; 160. Coenonympha phryne kintschouensis (Bang-Haas, 1939); 161. Melanargia galathea v. sakaria ab. minor Meinhard; 162. Epinephele ida ab. caeca Dannehl; 163. Satyrus actaea achaltekkensis Holik. a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.