Podisma alpinum carinthiacum Obenberger, 1926

MACHÁýKOVÁ, Lenka & FIKÁýEK, Martin, 2014, Catalogue of the type specimens deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic *, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54 (1), pp. 399-450 : 445

Podisma alpinum carinthiacum Obenberger, 1926

Podisma alpina var. alpina subvar. carinthiaca Puschnig, 1910: 27 (unavailable name). Podisma alpinum var. carinthiacum Obenberger, 1926a: 179 .

Current status. Miramella (Kisella) carinthiaca (Obenberger, 1926) .

Comments. PUSCHNIG (1910) used the name carinthiaca as the fourth name attached to the trinomen, which clearly indicates it was infrasubspecific following the Article 45.5 of the Code (ICZN 1999) and hence unavailable. OBENBERGER (1926a,b) also used it as infraspecific, indicating it as ‘var.’ (whereas he always used the abbreviation ‘ssp.’ for the names he understood as subspecific). However, it was later adopted as a valid subspecies name accepting Obenberger’s authorship ( RAMME 1951: plate IV), which made it an available name since its publication by OBENBERGER (1926a) following the Article 45.6.4.1 of the Code (ICZN 1999). There are no specimens of this taxon in NMPC bearing the indication that they were examined by Obenberger in the 1920’s, and the variety is also not mentioned in the detailed treatment of Podisma alpina by OBENBERGER (1926a: 180). This suggests that OBENBERGER (1926a,b) did not examine any specimens of this taxon and only followed the diagnosis by PUSCHNIG (1910) in his study. Specimens examined by PUSCHNIG (1910) have to be considered the types of this taxon.