Melitaea phoebe ogygia Fruhstorfer, 1908

Russell, P. J. C., Bartolozzi, L., Hawkins, R. L., Tennent, W. J. & Léger, T., 2020, Designation of lectotypes for some Spanish and other western European Melitaea taxa, some with mixed syntypic series of M. phoebe ([Denis & amp; Schiffermüller], 1775) and M. ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 48 (191), pp. 449-472 : 451

Melitaea phoebe ogygia Fruhstorfer, 1908

[TL: Greece, Poros Island]; name used by VARGA (1967) for Hungarian populations of what proved later to be M. ornata . According to BERNARDI & DE LESSE (1951: 140), a single female “holotype” is present in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (MNHNP) ( Figs 8a, b). Fruhstorfer did not routinely designate holotypes but since there is only one specimen it can be regarded as the holotype. From the photograph ( Fig. 8b) of the underside of this specimen, it can be seen that it has centrally thickened triangular black submarginal markings not touching the intervening veins on both fore- and hindwings and also foreshortened tips to the antenna (spatulate). Thus ogygia is M. ornata and not M. phoebe as described originally by Fruhstorfer, a suitable label has been attached ( Fig. 8c).