Erebia gorge subsp. pirinica Buresch 1919
Creators: name: Abadjiev, Stanislav
name: Langourov, Mario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Erebia
Erebia gorge
Pirinica buresch, 1919

description: pirinica Buresch, 1919
“ Erebia gorge pirinica nov. subsp.” (Buresch 1919: 224–226, Abbildung 11, Figs 8, 9, 10). Type locality: “Piringebirge auf den Gipfel El-Tepe, in einer Höhe von 2200–2600 m ” [Bulgaria: Pirin Mountains: Vihren Peak: 2200–2600 m], originally designated (Buresch 1919: 225).
Lectotype ♂ (Fig. 15) with labels: (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Pirin Pl. 12-VII 1915 | El. Tepe 2 5 00m. | Dr Iw. Buresch ”; (2) printed (on white paper) “ Illustrated by Buresch, 1918 | 11: Fig. 9 ”; (3) printed (on white paper) “ Photographed for | S. Abadjiev | Butterflies of Bulgaria | Part 3”; (4) printed (on white paper) “ SYNTYPE ♂ | Erebia gorge pirinica | Buresch, 1918 | S. Abadjiev det. 1994”; (5) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01034”; (6) printed (on red paper) “ LECTOTYPE ♂ | Erebia gorge pirinica | Buresch, 1918 | Abadjiev & Langourov design. 2020”.
Paralectotypes 5 ♂♂, 1 ♀ with labels:
[1 ♂] (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Pirin Pl. 12-VII 1915 | El. Tepe 2 2 00m. | Dr Iw. Buresch”; (2) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01031”;
[2 ♂] (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Pirin Pl. 12-VII 1915 | El. Tepe 2 3 00m. | Dr Iw. Buresch”; (2) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01032”;
[3 ♂] (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Pirin Pl. 12-VII 1915 | El. Tepe 2 5 00m. | Dr Iw. Buresch”; (2) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01033”;
[4 ♂] (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Pirin Pl. 12-VII 1915 | El. Tepe 2 1 00m. | Dr Iw. Buresch”; (2) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01035”;
[5 ♂] (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Pirin Pl. 12-VII 1915 | El. Tepe 2 6 00m. | Dr Iw. Buresch”; (2) printed (on white paper) “Illustrated by Buresch, 1918 | 11: Fig. 10 ”; (3) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01036”;
[6 ♀] (Fig. 16) (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) “Pirin Pl. 12-VII 1915 | El. Tepe 2 2 00-2 6 00m. | Dr Iw. Buresch”; (2) printed (on white paper) “NMNHS-INV-T-01037”;
all the paralectotypes with additional, printed (on red paper) “ PARALECTOTYPE ♂ [♀ respectively] | Erebia gorge pirinica | Buresch, 1918 | Abadjiev & Langourov design. 2020”.
The original description appeared in issue 9/10, dated 25 March 1919. There is an error in the number of specimens of the type series. Buresch (1919: 225) reported 3 ♂♂ and 7 ♀♀, while the specimens stored in the museum are 6 ♂♂ and 1 ♀. For stability of nomenclature and following Article 74 (ICZN 1999) the male with identifier “NMNHS-INV-T-01034” is here designated as lectotype for Erebia gorge pirinica Buresch, 1919. The specimen was illustrated in the original publication by Buresch (1919: 224, Abbildung 11: Fig. 9) and by Abadjiev (1995: Pl. XIV: Figs 11–12). Originally described as (and valid) subspecies of Erebia gorge (Hübner, [1804]), endemic for the alpine part of Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria.
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 page 482, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4019293