?118. Aglais guhni Tschauner, 1926

Original combination.

" Vanessa urticae var. guhni" Tschauner, 1926 Int. Ent. Z. 20: 229, 273.

Current combination.

Aglais urticae guhni (Tschauner, 1926).

Current status.

Junior subjective synonym of Aglais urticae urticae (Linnaeus, 1758).

Type material.

Paratype 1? (ZMH 827667) (Fig. 118). “Paratypoid” // " Vanessa urticae / nov. var. guhni / Paratype e. coll. / Tschauner, Berlin 1926" // "Coll. Bytinski-Salz / Eing. Nr. 20, 1960" // "ZMH 827667".

Type locality.

Germany: Berlin.

Remarks.

This case seems ambiguous, because Tschauner (1926) writes that the new name constitutes a local variation, if not a new race, although he also notes that he is not sure whether the variation is really heritable. On page 273 he names it again as " Vanessa urticae var. Guhni nov. spec." [sic!]. See also the critical remark by Kitt (1927).