Melitaea phoebe subsp. mandarina Seitz 1909
- 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 mandarina Seitz, 1909
[TL Mongolia] a specimen of unspecified sex figured by Seitz (plate 65, fig. h, 1) is large and heavily marked, particularly the forewing post-discal black square spots. Higgins (1941: 340) suggested that it was a form very similar to the taxon changaica (see above) and his illustrations (Higgins 1941: plate 14, figs 7 & 8), show a similarity in spite of the large disparity in size. Van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 60) indicated that there were two female specimens in the Zoologisches Museum in Berlin (D), they did not illustrate either but placed this form under M. phoebe. The underside submarginal markings of specimens illustrated by Seitz and Higgins are curved and touch the intervening veins clearly indicating an association with M. phoebe, agreeing with van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 60) and Russell & Tennent (2016: note 49).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Melitaea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Seitz
- Species
- mandarina
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melitaea phoebe subsp. mandarina Seitz, 1909 sec. Russell, Lukhtanov & Tennent, 2022
References
- 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