Pyrgus centralitaliae Verity, 1920

Zahiri, Reza, Nazari, Vazrick, Rajaei, Hossein, Wiemers, Martin, Fatahi, Maryam, Seidel, Matthias, Dalsgaard, Thure & Husemann, Martin, 2021, ? An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part II. superfamily Papilionoidea, Evolutionary Systematics 5 (2), pp. 193-261 : 193

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.63435

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:984E15D8-80E0-4B7D-A84F-92BB0AD4EA73

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CEE78086-A4EF-57A2-A9EC-2A63F0EA6FAC

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scientific name

Pyrgus centralitaliae Verity, 1920
status

 

?168. Pyrgus centralitaliae Verity, 1920 View in CoL

Original combination.

" Hesperia alveus , Hüb., race centralitaliae, mihi" Verity, 1920 Ent. Rec. 32: 4.

Current combination.

Pyrgus alveus centralitaliae (Verity, 1920).

Current status.

Valid subspecies.

Original material.

Labelled as “Type” 4?? (ZMH 833502-833505) (Fig. 168 View Plate 25 ). " centralitaliae Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 6.VII.1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833502"; " centralitaliae Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 13.VII.1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833503"; " centralitaliae Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 22.VI.1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833504"; " centralitaliae Vrty" // "Marche / Bolognola / 27.VI.1937 / Querci" // [blank label] // "ZMH 833505 ".

Original locality.

Italy: Bologna.

Remarks.

Verity (1920) proposed this name as a “race” of H. alveus Hübner, [1803]. As it was given in trinomy and the content of the description clearly indicates that a geographical race was meant, this name is available as subspecific (article 45.6 ICZN 1999). The year on the specimen labels (1937) indicate specimens were collected 17 years after description (1920) from the same location the original holotype material was collected. As a result, the black label of the specimens treated as “types” is erroneous. The specimen collected from the same geographical location from which the type specimen was collected is called topotype. According to ICZN (1999), a topotype has no formal standing and is not regulated by the Code. Therefore, these four specimens are erroneously labelled as types, should be annotated as "Not a Type" and are treated here as “Non-type” specimens

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Papilionoidea

Family

Hesperiidae

SubFamily

Pyrginae

Tribe

Carcharodini

Genus

Pyrgus