70. Zygaena exulans v. amarensis Diehl

Material examined.

Labelled as “Cotypes” 2♂♂ (ZMH 835562- ZMH 835563) (Fig. 70). " Italia central. / 27 Majella 15/7 / 2400m / coll. F. Dannehl // Cotypen // 15.7.1927 / majella / Central-Italien // ZMH 835562"; " Italia central. / 15/7 Majella 27 / 2400m / coll. F. Dannehl // 15.7.1927 / majella / Central-Italien // ZMH 835563" .

Current status.

"in litteris" name and hence not available.

Remarks.

This taxon was never published. Diehl originally intended to describe the population from the Abruzzi in central Italy. Later he obviously realised that Burgeff (1926) had already named it a year before Dannehl collected these two specimens (1927). But even Burgeff’s name (subsp. Zygaena exulans Abruzzina) is not based on the discovery, as it was (and still is) a ransalpin name of a former homonymic name (subsp. Zygaena exulans Apennina Rebel, 1910, preoccupied by Zygaena apennina Turati, 1884, a subsp. Of Z. carniolica) (Axel Hofmann pers. comm.).