<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Melitaea phoebe var. saturata Staudinger 1892</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <p> <i>M. phoebe var. saturata</i> Staudinger, 1892</p> <p>[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 <i>M. phoebe</i>, 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 <sup>st</sup> June 1997; this shows clearly the wing markings and antennae distinctive of <i>M. phoebe</i> rather than of <i>M. ornata</i>. We confirm that the name <i>saturata</i> is referable to <i>M. phoebe</i>.</p> </body> </html>