Melitaea phoebe gerinia Fruhstorfer, 1917

Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J. & Léger, T., 2020, Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191), pp. 449-472 : 452

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.369

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15237482

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ECBD05-4056-0B2F-FF2D-7D4EFDB26E10

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scientific name

Melitaea phoebe gerinia Fruhstorfer, 1917
status

 

Melitaea phoebe gerinia Fruhstorfer, 1917 View in CoL

[TL: Portugal, Lissabon {Lisbon}]; BERNARDI & DE LESSE (1951: 141) reported that there were no specimens of this subspecies in Fruhstorfer’s collection in MNHNP. However, Rodolphe Rougeri found a male specimen there. From photographs of the underside it can be concluded that, despite the somewhat triangular shape of the submarginal black markings, they touched the intervening veins, the antennal tips were club shaped and not spatulate and the forewing apices appeared more acute than rounded. This specimen is correctly identified as M. phoebe , as described by Fruhstorfer and in agreement with VAN OORSCHOT & COUTSIS (2014: 61) and RUSSELL & TENNENT (2016: note 39).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Melitaea

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