Lycaena icarus Rott. F. wiskotti Courvoisier, 1911

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

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.11

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5974750

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scientific name

Lycaena icarus Rott. F. wiskotti Courvoisier, 1911
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Lycaena icarus Rott. F. wiskotti Courvoisier, 1911 ( figs. 4, 5 View FIGURES 1–15 , 16B View FIGURE 16 )

Courvoisier, 1911a: 141; 1911b: 105, type locality: “Herrn Dr. M. Wiskott aus Narün”.

[ Lycaena View in CoL ] Venus St. f. Wiskotti Courvoisier, 1911 . Courvoisier, 1913: 291.

The type series contain 3 syntypes. To preserve the nomenclatural stability, I designate here the lectotype of Lycaena icarus Rott. f. wiskotti Courvoisier, 1911 , a male specimen ( figs. 4, 5 View FIGURES 1–15 ), fully identical to the one figured by L.G. Courvoisier (1911b: pl. 2, fig. 7 View FIGURES 1–15 ), labelled: pink paper, printed “ TYPUS ”; pink paper, handwritten “Narün | 1909 Wisk.”.

Two other syntype specimens (females) are designated here as paralectotypes.

The comparison of P. icarus wiskotti and P. venus lectotypes ( figs. 1, 2, 4, 5 View FIGURES 1–15 ) with no doubts show: they are two different species, the taxon wiskotti cannot be included into P. venus : they differ in wings upperside ground color tone and pattern ( P. venus has a black discal spot on the forewing, whereas P. icarus does not have it; P. venus has black marginal spots on the hindwing, P. icarus does not have them; etc.), in wings underside pattern ( P. venus has two subbasal spots in discal cell on the forewing, P. icarus has only one such spot; subtornal spots in P. venus are almost red, in P. icarus they are almost orange; etc.). Due to this reason the subspecies P. venus markusha Korb, 2014 from Inner Tian-Shan was described ( Korb, 2014). Thus, I concluded that the subspecies P. icarus wiskotti which was described from the South-Eastern Russia is clearly a synonym of the nominate subspecies: P. icarus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775) = P. icarus wiskotti (Courvoisier, 1911) , syn.n. (type locality by the lectotype designation: Narün NE from Astrakhan between rivers Volga and Ural).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lycaenidae

Genus

Lycaena

Loc

Lycaena icarus Rott. F. wiskotti Courvoisier, 1911

Korb, Stanislav K. 2018
2018
Loc

Lycaena

Courvoisier, 1913 : 291
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