Phymatopus hecta ab. inversa (Bytinski-Salz, 1939)

Zahiri, Reza, Tarmann, Gerhard, Efetov, Konstantin A., Rajaei, Hossein, Fatahi, Maryam, Seidel, Matthias, Jaenicke, Birgit, Dalsgaard, Thure, Sikora, Marcy & Husemann, Martin, 2021, An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera (Insecta) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part I. superfamilies Hepialoidea, Cossoidea, and Zygaenoidea, Evolutionary Systematics 5 (1), pp. 39-70 : 39

1. Phymatopus hecta ab. inversa (Bytinski-Salz, 1939)

Hepialus hecta ab. inversa Bytinski-Salz, 1939: Ent. Rec. 51: 85.

Original material examined.

Labelled as “Holotype” ( ZMH 61345 ), 1♀ " St. Amata / Lettland / 16.7.1933 / leg. W. Brandt // Hepilus / hecta ab. / inversa / ByS / Holotypus f // ab. inversa / ByS // Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960 // ZMH 61345 " .

Original locality.

St. Amata, Lettonia [Latvia].

Current status.

Infrasubspecific and hence unavailable name.

Remarks.

Bytinski-Salz (1939) proposed this name as an aberration of a H. hecta , therefore it is deemed to be infrasubspecific, which is hence unavailable (Article 45.6.2, ICZN 1999). The original locality is Latvia, not Britain as mentioned in Nielsen et al. (2000).