Melitaea phoebe var. aetherea, Eversmann, 1851

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 : 26

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scientific name	Melitaea phoebe var. aetherea
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M. phoebe var. aetherea Eversmann, 1851 View in CoL

[TL: Southern Russian Federation] is considered by the authors to be a lightly marked but brightly coloured variety M. phoebe with reduced black markings on both wing surfaces. This nomenclatural association agrees with those of Higgins (1941: 331, plate 14, fig. 9), Tshikolovets (2011: 497), van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 60) and Russell & Tennent (2016: 43, note 9), with which the present authors agree.

References

Higgins, L. G. (1941) An illustrated catalogue of the Palearctic Melitaea (Lep. Rhopalocera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 91, 175 - 365. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1941. tb 01045. x

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

Tshikolovets, V. V. (2011) Butterflies of Europe & the Mediterranean area. Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic, 544 pp.

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.