Melitaea phoebe subsp. almana, Gaede, 1930

Russell, Peter J. C., Lukhtanov, Vladimir A. & Tennent, W. John, 2022, Reassessment of the status of some European and Asian Melitaea taxa described as subspecies of Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), with designations of lectotypes where appropriate (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Zootaxa 5141 (1), pp. 25-38 : 33

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scientific name	Melitaea phoebe subsp. almana
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M. phoebe almana Gaede, 1930 View in CoL

[TL: Syria, Elman Dagh], following Russell & Tennent (2016: 44, note 14) this name is a nomen nudum. It was described by Gaede as follows: ‘a pale race from North Syria similar to telona Fruhst. ’ (Translation). Although Gaede (1930: 208) attributed the name to Rebel (undated), no description by Rebel or anyone else has been found. Hesselbarth et al. (1995: 1031) suggested that it may have been a misspelling of amanica Rebel, but Gaede treated the names separately. As far as the authors are aware there has not been any illustration of “almana” and it was not mentioned by van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014).

References

Gaede, M. (1930) Melitaea. In: Seitz A (Ed.), Grossschmetterlinge de Erde, Die Palaearctische Schmetterlinge. Supplement, Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, 203 - 217. [16 plates]

Hesselbarth, G., van Oorschot, H. & Wagener, S. (1995) Die Tagfalter der Turkei unter Berucksichtigung der angrenzenden Lander, Sigbert Wagener, Bocholt, Germany, 1, 1 - 757, 2, 758 - 1354, 3, 1 - 847.

Russell, PJ. C. & Tennent, W. J. (2016) A synonymic list of names associated with western Palaearctic Melitaea phoebe (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) species group taxa M. phoebe; M. punica Oberthur, 1876; M. ornata Christoph, 1893) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Nota Lepidopterologica, 39 (1), 27 - 56. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / nl. 39.5929

Van Oorschot, H. & Coutsis, J. G. (2014) The genus Melitaea Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Nymphalinae) Taxonomy and systematics with special reference to the male genitalia. Tshikolovets publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic, 360 pp.