On the blue butterfly taxa established by L. G. Courvoisier with the type locality “ Narün ” (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) Author Korb, Stanislav K. text Zootaxa 2018 2018-06-07 4429 3 589 594 journal article 29947 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.11 e7ce4088-d5eb-4c3e-bc7f-9e215e47c5a8 1175-5326 1285004 E3AF6797-5443-4B5A-86ED-15F44FABCE5C Lycaena icarus Rott. F. wiskotti Courvoisier, 1911 ( figs. 4, 5 , 16B ) Courvoisier, 1911a : 141; 1911b: 105, type locality: “Herrn Dr. M. Wiskott aus Narün”. [ Lycaena ] 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 ), fully identical to the one figured by L.G. Courvoisier (1911b: pl. 2, fig. 7 ) , 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 ) 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).