Melitaea riloensis Zuellich , 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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.63435

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:984E15D8-80E0-4B7D-A84F-92BB0AD4EA73

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/41D0BEFC-540B-59F5-A75A-24273A039795

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scientific name

Melitaea riloensis Zuellich , 1936
status

 

?112. Melitaea riloensis Zuellich, 1936

Original combination.

" Melitaea cinxia L. var. riloensis Züllich.” Züllich, 1936 Z. Öst. Ent. Ver. 21: 27.

Current combination.

Melitaea cinxia riloensis Züllich, 1936.

Current status.

Junior subjective synonym of Melitaea cinxia clarissa Staudinger.

Type material.

Syntypes 2?? (ZMH 827646-827647) (Fig. 112 View Plate 16 ). "COTYPE / Mel. cinxia L. / ? v. riloensis / Z. d. Ö. Ent. V. 1936 / DR. ZÜLLICH, WIEN" // "BULGARIEN JUNI 1923 / RYLA GEB. 1200 bis 1800 m / O. BUBACEK WIEN" // [blank label] // "ZMH 827646"; "COTYPE / Mel. cinxia L. / ? v. riloensis / Z. d. Ö. Ent. V. 1936 / DR. ZÜLLICH, WIEN" // "BULGARIEN JUNI 1923 / RYLA GEB. 1200 bis 1800 m / O. BUBACEK WIEN" // [blank label] // "ZMH 827647".

Type locality.

Bulgaria: "auf dem Steilhang östlich des Riloklosters in einer Höhe von etwa 1200 m." [at a steep slope east of the Rilo monastry at an altitude of about 1200 m]. 1901.

Remarks.

Züllich (1936) proposed this name as a “var.” of M. cinxia (Linnaeus, 1758). According to article 45.6.4 ( ICZN 1999), it is subspecific if first published before 1961 and author expressly used the term “var.”.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Melitaea