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
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589
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.11
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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).