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Melitaea phoebe subsp. sarvistana Wiltshire 1941
Authors/Creators
- 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 sarvistana
Wiltshire, 1941 [TL: Iran, Sarvistan, SE of Shiraz salt lake] has been considered a distinct species, M. sarvistana, for a number of years (Higgins 1941: 166). For information on this Iranian endemic see Tshikolovets et al. (2014: 321–322 & plate LX: figs 13-18).
Notes
Published as part of Russell, Peter J. C., Lukhtanov, Vladimir A. & Tennent, W. John, 2022, Reassessment of the status of some European and Asian Melitaea taxa described as subspecies of Melitaea phoebe ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), with designations of lectotypes where appropriate (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), pp. 25-38 in Zootaxa 5141 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/6577627
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Wiltshire
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Melitaea
- Species
- sarvistana
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melitaea phoebe subsp. sarvistana Wiltshire, 1941 sec. Russell, Lukhtanov & Tennent, 2022
References
- Wiltshire, E. P. (1941) New Lepidoptera from SW Iran. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 42, 472 - 474. [incl. 1 pl.]
- 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
- Tshikolovets, V. V., Naderi A. & Eckweiler, W. (2014) The butterflies of Iran and Iraq. Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic, 366 pp. + 65 colour plates.