Melitaea phoebe var. saturata Staudinger 1892
- 1. Oakmeadow, Wessex Avenue, East Wittering, West Sussex PO 20 8 NP, U. K.
- 2. Department of Karyosystematics, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 3. Scientific Associate, Division of Insects, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, U. K. & Honorary Associate, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, U. K
Description
M. phoebe var. saturata Staudinger, 1892
[TL: Kentai Mountains, Mongolia] A large and brightly coloured form typical of ‘mountain forms’ (Higgins 1941: 342). Van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: plate 12, fig. 25) figured a brightly coloured male syntype from the Staudinger collection in Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Both authors synonymised this variety with M. phoebe, as did Russell & Tennent (2016: 53, note 80). On the internet www.funet.fi (accessed 26.10.2020) has a photograph (© Kosterin) of the underside of a female(?), from the Iskitim District, Novosibirst Province, Western Siberia, Russian Federation on 21 st June 1997; this shows clearly the wing markings and antennae distinctive of M. phoebe rather than of M. ornata. We confirm that the name saturata is referable to M. phoebe.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Melitaea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Staudinger
- Species
- saturata
- Taxon rank
- variety
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melitaea phoebe var. saturata Staudinger, 1892 sec. Russell, Lukhtanov & Tennent, 2022
References
- Staudinger, O. (1892) Lepidopteren des Kentei-Gebirges. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris, 5, 300 - 393.
- Higgins, L. G. (1941) An illustrated catalogue of the Palearctic Melitaea (Lep. Rhopalocera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 91, 175 - 365. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1941. tb 01045. x
- Van Oorschot, H. & Coutsis, J. G. (2014) The genus Melitaea Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Nymphalinae) Taxonomy and systematics with special reference to the male genitalia. Tshikolovets publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic, 360 pp.
- Russell, PJ. C. & Tennent, W. J. (2016) A synonymic list of names associated with western Palaearctic Melitaea phoebe (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775) species group taxa M. phoebe; M. punica Oberthur, 1876; M. ornata Christoph, 1893) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Nota Lepidopterologica, 39 (1), 27 - 56. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / nl. 39.5929