Melitaea phoebe var. ornata, Christoph, 1893
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6580824 |
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Melitaea phoebe var. ornata |
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M. phoebe var. ornata Christoph, 1893 View in CoL
[TL: c irca ‘Guberli’, promontorium uralensium australium (Guberlya, Southern Urals, Orenburg Province, Russian Federation)] separated from M. phoebe simultaneously by Russell et al. (2005), under the name emipunica Verity 1919 , and Varga et al. (2005), under the name ogygia Fruhstorfer, 1908 . A lectotype ( Figs 9A, B, C View FIGURES 7–11 ) selected by Lvovsky (Anikin et al. 2017: 521) demonstrates clearly the wing and antennal characteristics of M. ornata . Unfortunately van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 60) referred to ‘ two male syntypes’ and placed the taxon ornata as a subspecies of M. phoebe . Their figures (Plate 13, figs 2 & 3), purporting to be ‘ ♂ syntypes from Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin’ are clearly females; all the figured specimens show the characters typical of M. ornata . Most authors now accept this taxon to be a species distinct from M. phoebe ( Tshikolovets 2011: 498; Lafranchis et al. 2015: 468). Some authors have used different names for the species (see Russell & Tennent 2016), whilst others continue to consider all M. phoebe group taxa to be conspecific ( Kudrna et al., 2015: 379). However, a large set of molecular and morphological data unequivocally indicate that M. ornata and M. phoebe are different species, which are found sympatrically in a number of localities ( Tóth et al., 2014, 2016, 2017).
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