Zygaena (Zygaena) meliloti silaecola Verity, 1930

Zahiri, Reza, Tarmann, Gerhard, Efetov, Konstantin A., Rajaei, Hossein, Fatahi, Maryam, Seidel, Matthias, Jaenicke, Birgit, Dalsgaard, Thure, Sikora, Marcy & Husemann, Martin, 2021, An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera (Insecta) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part I. superfamilies Hepialoidea, Cossoidea, and Zygaenoidea, Evolutionary Systematics 5 (1), pp. 39-70 : 39

50. Zygaena (Zygaena) meliloti silaecola Verity, 1930

Zygaena meliloti silaecola Verity, 1930: Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 9: 12.

Original material examined.

“Cotypes”.

Original locality.

Italy: Calabria, Cosenza, La Sila [for Anthrocera meliloti silana Turati, 1923]

Current status.

Synonym of Z. viciae sicula Calberla, 1895.

Remarks.

Zygaena meliloti (Esper, 1789) is a junior synonym to Zygaena viciae (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775). The taxon Zygaena silaecola Verity, 1930 was proposed as an objective replacement name for Anthrocera meliloti silana Turati, 1923, which is a junior secondary homonym to Zygaena lonicerae silana Burgeff, 1914. However, the taxon Zygaena silaecola Verity, 1930 is a junior synonym to Zygaena sicula Calberla, 1895. The current combination of this taxon is therefore Z. viciae sicula Calberla, 1895 ( Hofmann and Tremewan 1996). Moreover, as the reviewer Alberto Zilli correctly states, if the type status of specimen(s) in case an original name has objectively been replaced which is the case here as the name Zygaena silaecola Verity, 1930 is stated to be a replacement for Zygaena silana Turati, 1923 due to the latter entering homonymy with another name. In this case, ICZN article 72.7 clearly state that the type specimens remain those of the original name regardless of any statement to the contrary (e.g. other specimens named as types). Accordingly, the listed ‘types’ are such only if they are part of the original Turati’s series, if they are part of another series worked upon by Verity they are not true types of Zygaena silaecola . Consequently, the ‚’types‘ listed above are incorrectly labelled as types.

Figures

Figures 47 - 56. 47. Zygaena (Agrumenia) truchmena magnifica Reiss 1935; 48. Zygaena (Zygaena) lonicerae stettinensis Reiss, 1922; 49. Zygaena (Zygaena) lavandulae barcelonica Reiss, 1936; 50. Zygaena (Zygaena) meliloti silaecola Verity, 1930; 51. Zygaena (Zygaena) meliloti subglockneriana f. charonides Reiss, 1943; 52. Zygaena nevadensis kricheldorffi Reiss, 1933; 53. Zygaena nevadensis falleriana Reiss, 1931; 54. Zygaena nevadensis falleriana ab. confluens Reiss, 1936; 55. Zygaena nevadensis falleriana ab. amplomaculata Reiss, 1936; 56. Zygaena nevadensis schmidti Reiss, 1931.