?17. Parnassius nominulus Staudinger, 1894

Original combination.

" Parnassius Nomion var. Nominulus " Staudinger, 1894 Dt. Ent. Z. Iris 7(2): 241.

Current combination.

Parnassius nomion nominulus Staudinger, 1894.

Current status.

Valid subspecies.

Type material.

Type? 1?1? (ZMH 824717-824718) (Fig. 17). "Irkutsk / Sibirien / A.M. Schmidt / Inh. M. Göttmann” // " Parn. nomion Hb. / Typus?" // "Coll. G. Warnecke / Eing. Nr. 11, 1963" // "ZMH 824717"; “Kentei-Geb.” // "Gebr. Dörries leg. 1893 / Erworb. e. coll. / Dörries sen. 1917" // " Nomion typ., [illegible]" // "Sig-G Warnecke / Eing. Nr 5 1949" // "Katalog Nr. / L. 604" // "ZMH 824718".

Type locality.

Russia: "Ost- Sajan -Gebiet ( südwestlich von Irkutsk, an der Grenze der chinesischen Mongolei gelegen)" [East-Sajan region (southwest of Irkutsk, at the border of Chinese Mongolia)].

Remarks.

Staudinger (1894) proposed this name as a variety of P. nomion Fischer & Waldheim, 1823. According to article 45.6.4 (ICZN 1999), it is subspecific if first published before 1961 and author expressly used the terms “variety” or “form” . We believe that these two specimens belong to ssp. Parnassius nomion nominulus Staudinger, 1894. The year on one of the labels (1893) supports this. The question mark on the label ( “Typus?”) shows uncertainty about whether it is a type. In the original description, Staudinger says: "... bemerke ich, dass die kleineren Stücke aus dem Kentei-Gebirge den grösseren var. Nominulus fast gleichkommen." [ … I realize that the smaller specimens from the Kentei-Mountains are very similar to the larger var. nominulus].