Quartinia popovi Richards

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Quartinia popovi “Kost. in litt.” Gussakovskij, 1935: 467, fig. 23, nom. nud.

Quartinia popovi “Gussakovskiǐ ” Richards, 1962: 143, ♀ (type locality: “ District of Kondara ” [Tajikistan]).

Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♀, labeled “уЩ. Кондара [ Kondara Canyon] / 7-VIII 37 / В. Гуссаковск. [V. Gussakovskij] // Quartinia / popovi Kost. ♀ / G Kostylev det. 1938 // МОсКва / ЗООЛОГичесКий / МУЗей МГУ [Moscow, Zoological Museum MSU] // Holotype ♀ / Quartinia popovi / Richards, 1962 [red label]” [ZMMU].

Current status. Valid (Carpenter 2001; Fateryga & Proshchalykin 2024).

Remarks. Gussakovskij (1935) wrote that this species was described by G. Kostylev in another paper but it was not done. Richards, in his description of Q. popovi, mentioned only a specimen from ZMMU, collected in Kondara on 7.VIII.1937 by V. Gussakovskij (Richards 1962). This specimen is the holotype according to Art. 73.1.2 of ICZN (1999).