Melitaea phoebe subsp. tungusa Herz 1899

• Main Authors: Russell, Peter J. C., Lukhtanov, Vladimir A., Tennent, W. John
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae; Melitaea; Melitaea phoebe; M.phoebe tungusa herz,1899; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6580828; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/DB6B87B0FFFCFFE2E1FD00CDFCA5FDDA

M.phoebe tungusa Herz,1899 [TL: Russian Federation,Yakutia,River Witim];wing morphology and particularly the club shaped antenna indicate that this subspecies is referable to M. phoebe . Lukhtanov here designates a male as lectotype for the name tungusa Herz, 1899. The lectotype is shown in Figures 11A & B, together with the labels (Fig. 11C). The labels on the pin are as follows: (1) on red paper handwritten in black “ Lectotype / Melitaea Phoebe Knock / var. Tungusa Herz / V. Lukhtanov design; (2) on black-edged white paper, printed in black “Кол.[лекциЯ] Вел.[икого] Кн.[ЯЗЯ]/ НиколаЯ/ Михайловича” (translates to: Collection of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich); (3) on white paper with a broad black surround printed in black on the upperside “Witim” and on the underside “O. Herz”; (4) on white paper (discolouring to brown) handwritten in black “1/12/7” (This means: 01 July [1888] (old style)/12 July [1888] (new style). No year is given on the data label but it can be deduced from Herz (1899: 240). This diagnosis agrees with those of Higgins (1941: 342), Korb & Bolshakov (2011: 41) and van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 60); not considered by Hesselbarth et al . (1995). Published as part of Russell, Peter J. C., Lukhtanov, Vladimir A. & Tennent, W. John, 2022, Reassessment of the status of some European and Asian Melitaea taxa described as subspecies of Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), with designations of lectotypes where appropriate (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), pp. 25-38 in Zootaxa 5141 (1) on page 29, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5141.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/6577627