Ahlbergia inopinata Omelko, incertae sedis

• Main Authors: Huang, Hao, Zhu, Jian-Qing
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Lycaenidae; Ahlbergia; Ahlbergia inopinata; taiga
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6080426; https://zenodo.org/record/6080426

Ahlbergia inopinata Omelko, incertae sedis (Figs. 130–138) Ahlbergia inopinata Omelko, in Omelko & Omelko 1995: 218, figs. 1–6 for habitus, characters and larva, figs. 7–8 for male and female genitalia, TL: 18 km southeast from Ussuriisk, Primorskii Krai province, Russia; Korshunov 1996: 43, synonymy for A. tricaudata aquilonaria Tuzov 2000: 118, synonymy for A. frivaldszkyi aquilonaria . Material . None Taxonomy . Korshunov (1996) treated A. inopinata as a synonym of A. frivaldszkyi aquilonaria this opinion is supported by the wing-characters of a male paratype (Figs. 130–131) preserved in the Siberian Zoological Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia and the male genitalic characters originally illustrated (Omelko & Omelko 1995: 222, fig. 7; reproduced herein as Fig. 133). However, the female genitalia of A. inopinata as originally illustrated (Omelko & Omelko 1995: 222, fig. 8; reproduced herein as Fig. 138) resemble those of A. leei instead of A. frivaldszkyi . In the original description of A. inopinata , the male holotype was not figured, and the specimen with male genitalia figured was not specified. Thus a final conclusion cannot be made from the original description. The holotype needs to be re-examined in the future. If the association of male and female genitalia in the original description is correct, A. inopinata should be regarded as a real species distinct from A. frivaldszkyi and A. leei . On the other hand, there is a possibility that Omelko & Omelko (1995) mixed specimens belonging to A. frivaldszkyi and A. leei in their work and regarded them as a single species. Distribution. Russia (Ussuri). : Published as part of Huang, Hao & Zhu, Jian-Qing, 2016, Ahlbergia maoweiweii sp. n. from Shaanxi, China with revisional notes on similar species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), pp. 409-433 in Zootaxa 4114 (4) on pages 428-429, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/271605 : {"references": ["Omelko, M. M. & Omelko, M. A. (1995) [New data on systematics and biology of the elfin-butterfly genus Satsuma Murr. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Primorsky region]. In: [Biological investigation on the Mountain-Taiga Station]. No. 2. Ussuriisk, 218 - 233. [In Russian]", "Korshunov, Y. P. (1996) [Addenda and corrigenda to the book \" butterflies of the Asian part of the Russia \"]. Novosibirsk, 66 pp. (In Russian).", "Tuzov, V. K. (2000) Genus Ahlbergia. In: Guide to the butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow, 2, pp. 118 - 120."]}