Parnassius mnemosyne (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bland, Keith P., 2019, Name-bearing types of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea), in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Zootaxa 4559 (1), pp. 57-89 : 69

Parnassius mnemosyne (Linnaeus, 1758) ab. MELAINA Honrath, 1885

Berliner entomologische Zeitscrift 29 (2), 272-278 [273]. Current accepted combination: Parnassius mnemosyne (Linnaeus, 1758) ssp. melaina Fruhstorfer, 1908 (see comment below).

Syntypes: two males, pinned: Specimen data: Specimen a: “ab. ♀ | Melaina mihi | Kötschach | (Kärnthen)” [Handwritten by Honrath in black ink on white black-bordered paper]. “Adam Bequest | B.M.1912-399 | R.S.M. 1969.20” [Printed on white card]. Specimen b: “Kärnthen / Streckfuƭs | 1881” [Handwritten on white paper]. “Adam Bequest | B.M.1912-399 | R.S.M. 1969.20” [Printed on white card]. Remarks: This ‘aberration’ was found in numbers by Mr.D.A.Streckfuss in late June 1881 and 1882 at 4000 feet between Kötschach and Pleckenpass in Kärnthen. These specimens are part of the original series described by E.G.Honrath. Names given to “aberrations”are nomenclaturally unavailable and thus have no “types”; however by applying the name melaina as a subspecies of Parnassius mnemosyne, Fruhstorfer (1908; 18) made the name available under his own authorship .

[ Parnassius stubbendorfii Ménétriés, 1848 ab. MELANOPHIA Honrath, 1885

Berliner entomologische Zeitscrift 29 (2), 272-278 [274]. Current combination: Parnassius stubbendorfii Ménétriés, 1848 ssp. melanophia Honrath, 1885 (see Bridges, 1988b and comment below).

Specimens: three females, pinned. Specimen data: Specimen a: “ab.| Melanophia | mihi | Nikolaiefsk” [Handwritten by Honrath in black ink on yellow black-bordered paper]. “Adam Bequest | B.M. 1912-399 | R.S.M. 1969.20” [Printed on white card]. Specimen b: “Nikolaiefsk” [Printed on thick greenish paper]. “Adam Bequest | B.M. 1912-399 | R.S.M. 1969.20” [Printed on white card]. Specimen c: “Nicolaiefsk” [Typed on white paper]. “Adam Bequest | B.M. 1912-399 | R.S.M. 1969.20” [Printed on white card]. Remarks: These specimens are part of the original series collected by Mr. Louis Graeser and Mr.H.W.Dieckmann at the end of June 1883 at Nicolajefsk, East Siberia, Russia. This is another aberration that is nomenclaturally unavailable but was erroneously treated as a subspecies by Bridges (1988b).]

Parnassius nordmanni Ménétriés, 1850 var. MINIMA Honrath, 1885

Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 29 (2), 272–278 [273], plate 8, figure 2. Junior subjective synonym of Parnassius nordmanni Ménétriés, 1851 (see Nekrutenko, 1990).

Syntypes, four females, pinned: Specimen data: Specimen a: “var.| minima mihi | Kurusch 14000’ | Caucasus or.” [Handwritten by Honrath in black ink on yellow black-bordered paper]. “Adam Bequest | B.M.1912-399 | R.S.M. 1969.20.”[Printed on whitecard.]. Specimens b-d: “Caucasus”[Typed on white paper]. “Adam Bequest | B.M. 1912-399 | R.S.M.1969.20.”[Printed on white card]. Remarks: This ‘variety’ was found by Mr.H.Christoph in early August 1872 at 14000 feet on top of the Kurusch, near Basardjusi in the eastern Caucasus (i.e. Daghestan, Russia). These specimens are part of the original series of the variety described by Honrath (1885). Bridges (1988b) treated var. minima as a subspecies; this was not accepted by Nekrutenko (1990).