Erebia Myops, 1881

Erebia Myops View in CoL , in:

Staudinger, O. (1881): Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna Central-Asiens. — Entomologische Zeitung herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin, 42 (7–9): 296–297.

Type material: „Im Jahre 1877 machte der bekannte tüchtige Sammler Herr Joseph Haberhauer mit seinem damals 21jährigen Sohn in meinem Auftrag eine Reise nach dem Tarbagatai und Ala Tau [...] sandte Haberhauer leider nur drei sehr geflogene ♂ ein“. Additional information: “lectotype [...] (designated here)”, “Lektotip ♂ [...] ‘LECTOTYPUS ♂ / Erebia myops / Staudinger, 1881 / Stett. Ent. Z. 42: 296 / S.K.Korb design. 05–09.12.2011‘“ ( Korb 2012: 40).

Type status: Lectotype ( ♂, 1878, J. Haberhauer leg., coll. O. Staudinger).

Depository: MFNB, Berlin.

Type locality: „wahrscheinlich Alpen-Gebiet des Ala Tau “ [ Kazakhstan].

Additional information: “Lepsinsk, Dzhungarsky Alatau, E. Kazakhstan” ( Bogdanov et al. 1997: 198); “Kaikan Mts., Dzhungar Mts., Eastern Kazakhstan” ( Toropov & Zhdanko 2006: 212).

Comments: Out of the three original male syntypes, only two specimens were present in the Staudinger collection at MFNB, one of which was designated as lectotype by Korb (2012: 40). The state and whereabouts of the third male paralectotype is currently unknown. The type locality has been inferred to be near “Lepsinsk” (= Lepsy) at the northern rim of the Alatau range as this is also the place mentioned by Haberhauer (as “Lepsa”) in his report ( Staudinger, 1881: 254), most likely in the foothills and mountains south of the town.