On the blue butterfly taxa established by L. G. Courvoisier with the type locality “ Narün ” (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)
Author
Korb, Stanislav K.
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-07
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Lycaena arion
L. f.
naruena
Courvoisier, 1911
(
figs. 7–9, 12
,
16C
)
Courvoisier, 1911a
: 202; 1911b: 108, type locality: “…aus Narün, durch Vermittlung von H. Dr. M. Wiskott…”
The
type
series contains
Phengaris cyanecula
(Eversmann, 1848)
, not
P. arion
(Linnaeus, 1758)
(the discal spot on the forewing upperside in males is wider, than the marginal border), and they definitely originate from the Central Asiatic mountains (large and bright wing pattern elements are characteristic for the Central Asian subspecies of this species; the typical
Siberian
P. cyanecula
male is figured on
fig. 3
and differs very well by small wing pattern elements, the typical
P. cyanecula
male from Central Asia is figured on
fig. 6
). A female specimen was figured as the
type
of this taxon by its author.
It is important to note that the area of
P. cyanecula
does not include Europe where the locality “Narün” is located. According the last revision of the Palaearctic
Phengaris
(
Korb, 2011: 34
)
its distribution covers “mountain regions of South Siberia and Far East, Tian-Shan, Alai, Dzhungaria, Saur, Tarbagatai,
Mongolia
, Central, North-Eastern and West
China
, North
Corea
”. Thus, it is impossible to collect this species in Europe.
The
type
series contain
2 syntypes
. To preserve the nomenclatural stability, it is necessary to designate the
lectotype
of this taxon. I designate this
lectotype
here, a female specimen (
figs. 9, 12
), which is figured in the paper of
L.G. Courvoisier (1911b: pl. 2,
fig. 13
)
, labelled: pink paper, printed “
TYPUS
”; pink paper, handwritten “Narün | 1909 Wisk.”; white paper, handwritten “F.
naruena
m. 1910”.
The other
syntype
specimen, female, is designated here as
paralectotype
.
As we can see from the comparison we made, the type series of this taxon was definitely collected in Central Asia. In this situation the type locality “Narün” must be treated as “Naryn” and therefore the taxon belongs to the Central Asiatic fauna, with following nomenclatural implications due to the Principle of Priority:
Phengaris cyanecula naruena
(Courvoisier, 1911)
,
stat.rev.
=
P. cyanecula sosinomus
(Fruhstorfer, 1915)
,
syn.n.
, =
P. cyanecula sauron
(Korb, 2003)
,
syn.n
.
; type locality must be corrected as well: “Narün” (Naryn in Inner Kyrgyzstan).