Parnassius gigantea Staudinger, 1886

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

?30. Parnassius gigantea Staudinger, 1886

Original combination.

" Parn[assius] mnemosyne L. var. gigantea" Staudinger, 1886 Stett. Ent. Ztg. 47 (4-6): 197.

Current combination.

Parnassius mnemosyne gigantea Staudinger, 1886.

Current status.

Valid subspecies.

Type material.

Syntype 1? (ZMH 824713) (Fig. 30 ). "v. gigantea / 1/86? / Tary. / Ob. Turk. / “Warnecke” // "Tary Ob. Türkestan” // "? Parn. Mnemosyne / v. gigantea / E.W. BETH / Hamburg. den Haag" // "Coll. H. Rödinger / Eing. Nr. 30, 1952 / Katalog Nr. L / 6133" // "ZMH 824713".

Type locality.

Russian Turkestan.

Remarks.

Staudinger (1886) proposed this name as a variety of P. mnemosyne (Linnaeus, 1758). According to article 45.6.4 ( ICZN 1999), it is subspecific if first published before 1961 and author expressly used the terms “variety” or “form”.

Figures

Plate 5. 25. Parnassius inopinatus Kotzsch, 1940; 26. Parnassius imperator gigas Kotzsch, 1932; 27. Parnassius mnemosyne clorinda Kolar & Querci, 1937; 28. Parnassius mnemosyne rjabovi Sheljuzhko, 1935; 29. Parnassius mnemosyne comitis Bryk, 1912; 30. Parnassius mnemosyne gigantea Staudinger, 1886. a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.