Polyommatus olympena Verity, 1936

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

?95. Polyommatus olympena Verity, 1936

Original combination.

" L. escheri, Hüb. race olympena, nom. nov." Verity, 1936 Ent. Rec. 48: 8.

Current combination.

Polyommatus escheri olympena (Verity, 1936).

Current status.

Valid subspecies.

Type material.

Syntypes 2?? (ZMH 833487-833488) (Fig. 95 ). "olympena Vrty" // "Macedonia / Olympus, 2500' / July 13, 1935 / Romei" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833487"; "olympena Vrty" // "Macedonia / Olympus, 2500' / July 9, 1936 / Romei" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833488".

Type locality.

Greece: "Mt. Olympus, from 850 to 1500 m."

Remarks.

Verity (1936) proposed this name as a race of L. escheri Hübner, 1823. According to Kudrna (1983: 34), this race represents an available subspecific name.

Figures

Plate 14. 95. Polyommatus escheri olympena (Verity, 1936); 96. Polyommatus icarus ab. privata (Schoenfeld, 1924); 97. Polyommatus (Sublysandra) nuksani (Forster, 1937); 98. Tarucus balkanica ab. clorinda Verity, 1938; 99. Turanana panagaea ahasveros (Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937); 100. Satyrium ilicis syra (Pfeiffer, 1932); 101. Satyrium spini brevicaudis (Vorbrodt, 1911); 102. Lycaena cyllarus v. romana Hartig; 103. Lysandra coridon ab. albipunctata Hartig. a. Dorsal view, b. ventral view.