Colias myrmidone subsp. balcanica Rebel
Creators: name: Abadjiev, Stanislav
name: Langourov, Mario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pieridae
Colias
Colias myrmidone
Balcanica rebel, 1901

description: balcanica Rebel, 1901
“ Colias Myrmidone Esp. v. Balcanica Rbl.” (Rebel 1901: 134). Type locality: after lectotype data label, Bosna and Herzegovina: Vucja Bara, here fixed; see also Rebel (1904: 139, 142): “Vucija bara, Hochtal (1246 [m]) zwischen der ‘Bjelasica, Berg (1867 [m]) südwestl. von Gacko’ und der ‘Baba (Djed), Berg (1737 [m]) westl. von Gacko’”.
Paralectotypes 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ with labels:
[1 ♂] (Fig. 3) (1) printed (on white paper) “Vucija bara | 19. VII. 1900 ”; (2) printed (on white paper) “No. L 03651 | NMNHS—Ins.”; (3) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01002”;
[2 ♀] (Fig. 4) (1) printed (on white paper) “No. L 03649 | NMNHS—Ins.”; (2) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS- INV-T-01003”;
[3 ♀] (Fig. 5) (1) printed (on white paper) “No. L 03650 | NMNHS—Ins.”; (2) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS- INV-T-01004”;
[4 ♀] (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Bosn. Rbl. | Trebevic | 5. VII. 98 ”; (2) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Collectio | Princ. Bulg. | Bosn. ”; (3) printed (on white paper) “No. L 03627 | NMNHS—Ins.”; (4) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS- INV-T-01005”;
paralectotypes 1–3 with additional, printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Collectio | Princ. Bulg. | Herceg. ”; paralectotypes 2, 3 with additional, (1) handwritten (on white paper) “Vucija bara | 22. VII..”; (2) printed (on white paper) “Hercegovina | Rebel, ’99”; all the 4 paralectotypes with additional, printed (on red paper) “ PARALECTOTYPE ♂ [♀ respectively] | Colias myrmidone balcanica | Rebel, 1901 | Ab- adjiev & Langourov design 2020”.
While working on the “Butterflies of Bulgaria ” series, the senior author received via Dr Martin Lödl photos of types of Colias caucasica balcanica, kept at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NHMW) and one of them was recently illustrated (Abadjiev 1993: Pl. XVI: Fig. 8). Just repeating the label, the same specimen was reported as “lectoholotype” (Abadjiev 1992: 45). It is also illustrated in Rebel (1904: Tafel IV: Fig. 2). Later Hesselbarth, van Oorschot & Wagener (1995: 328: footnote 1) stated: “Typenmaterial: Lectoholotypus ♀ …; design. Abadjiev (1992: 45) …”. It is necessary to stress upon the fact that the red label ending with “LECTOHOLOTYPUS ♀ ” and a des- ignation of a lectotype was never done. To avoid future confusions and for stability of nomenclature we think such a designation necessary and following Article 74 (ICZN 1999) the same specimen is here designated as lectotype for Colias myrmidone balcanica Rebel, 1901. Additional paralectotypes exist in the collections of Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien and the Natural History Museum, London (Abadjiev 2002: 16). Treated as a different subspecies, Colias caucasica balcanica Rebel, 1901 (Wagener 1990: 59), endemic for the Balkans.
description: Published as part of Abadjiev, Stanislav & Langourov, Mario, 2020, The type specimens of Papilionoidea in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (Lepidoptera), pp. 473-490 in Zootaxa 4790 (3) on pages 474-475, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4019293