Chrysophanus Phlaeas

Korb, Stanislav K., 2018, On the blue butterfly taxa established by L. G. Courvoisier with the type locality “ Narün ” (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), Zootaxa 4429 (3), pp. 589-594 : 590

[ Chrysophanus Phlaeas ] F. naruena Courvoisier, 1911 ( figs. 14, 15 , 16A )

Courvoisier, 1911a: 262, type locality: “aus Narün”.

The populations of Lycaena phlaeas (Linnaeus, 1761) from the low-mountainous and middle-mountainous Central Asia were considered by some authors as nominate subspecies ( Tshikolovets, 2005), and by others as ssp. oxiana Groum-Grshimaïlo, 1890 ( Korb & Bolshakov, 2016).

The type series contain 2 syntypes. To preserve the nomenclatural stability, I designate here the lectotype of [ Chrysophanus Phlaeas ] F. naruena Courvoisier, 1911 , a male specimen ( figs. 14, 15 ), labelled: white paper, handwritten “F. naruena . m. 19ii. ”; pink paper, handwritten “Narün | 1909 Wisk”.

The other syntype specimen, a female, is designated here as paralectotype.

The lectotype has no differences from European specimens (it has been figured in many sources, for example: www.lepiforum.de, www.eurobutterflies.com etc., so we do not publish the images of L. phlaeas from Europe here), thus it must be synonymized with the nominate subspecies: L. phlaeas phlaeas (Linnaeus, 1761) = L. phlaeas naruena (Courvoisier, 1911) , syn.n. (type locality by the lectotype designation: Narün NE from Astrakhan between rivers Volga and Ural).

Figures

FIGURE 16. The designated lecotype labels. A: Lycaena phlaeas naruena (Courvoisier, 1911); B: Polyommatus icarus wiskotti (Courvoisier, 1911); C: Phengaris cyanecula naruena (Courvoisier, 1911); D: Plebejus idas naruena (Courvoisier, 1913).

FIGURES 1–15. Polyommatus, Plebejus, Phengaris and Lycaena specimens. 1, 2: Polyommatus venus (Staudinger, 1886), lectotype male, upperside (1), underside (2). 3: Phengaris cyanecula (Eversmann, 1848), male, Russia, Bashkortostan, Yantysh village, upperside (right side) and underside (left side). 4, 5: Polyommatus icarus wiskotti (Courvoisier, 1911), lectotype male, upperside (4), underside (5). 6: Phengaris cyanecula (Eversmann, 1848), male, Kyrgyzstan, Suusamyr valley, Sary-Kaiky gorge, upperside (right side) and underside (left side). 7, 8: P. cyanecula naruena (Courvoisier, 1911), paralectotype male, upperside (7), underside (8). 9, 12: P. cyanecula naruena (Courvoisier, 1911), lectotype female, upperside (9), underside (12). 10, 11: Plebejus idas naruena (Courvoisier, 1913), lectotype male, upperside (10), underside (11). 13: P. idas (Linnaeus, 1761), male, Kyrgyzstan, South shore of Issyk-Kul lake, Kichi-Dzhargylchak environs, upperside (left side), underside (right side). 14, 15: Lycaena phlaeas naruena (Courvoisier, 1911), lectotype male, upperside (14), underside (15).