Polyommatus olympena Verity, 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/CEFBB05A-168D-5BF4-A4E1-0F5A992C7D9A

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scientific name

Polyommatus olympena Verity, 1936
status

 

?95. Polyommatus olympena Verity, 1936

Original combination.

" L. escheri, Hüb. race olympena, nom. nov." Verity, 1936 Ent. Rec. 48: 8.

Current combination.

Polyommatus escheri olympena (Verity, 1936).

Current status.

Valid subspecies.

Type material.

Syntypes 2?? (ZMH 833487-833488) (Fig. 95 View Plate 14 ). "olympena Vrty" // "Macedonia / Olympus, 2500' / July 13, 1935 / Romei" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833487"; "olympena Vrty" // "Macedonia / Olympus, 2500' / July 9, 1936 / Romei" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833488".

Type locality.

Greece: "Mt. Olympus, from 850 to 1500 m."

Remarks.

Verity (1936) proposed this name as a race of L. escheri Hübner, 1823. According to Kudrna (1983: 34), this race represents an available subspecific name.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lycaenidae

Genus

Polyommatus