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E.[
rebia]
medusa...
euphrasia subsp. nova’ Fruhstorfer, 1917 (Altes und Neues über Erebien. — Dt. ent. Z. Iris 31 (1/2) (1.VII.1917): 44). Type locality (see lectotype data label below): Bulgaria: Rila Mts: Tschamkorija [= Borovets]; UTM grid reference 34TGM18 (Abadjiev, 2002: 32).
Lectotype male, in BMNH London, with labels:
— (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) ‘Bulg.Tschamkorija | 5. | M. Hilf 1911 | Coll. O. Leonhard’; (2) handwritten (on white paper, framed) ‘euphrasia | Fruhst.’; (3) printed (on red paper) ‘Type’; (4) printed (on white paper) ‘Fruhstorfer Coll. | B.M. 1937-285.’; (5) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662150’; (6) printed (on red paper), double framed ‘LECTOTYPE male | Erebia medusa euphrasia | Fruhstorfer, 1917 | (Altes und Neues über Erebien. — | Dt. ent. Z. Iris 31 (1/2): 44) | [line] | Dr S. Abadjiev design. 2002’.
Paralectotype female, in BMNH London, with labels:
— (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) ‘Bulg.Tschamkorija | 5. | M. Hilf 1911 | Coll. O. Leonhard’; (2) printed (on red paper) ‘Type’; (3) printed (on white paper) ‘Fruhstorfer Coll. | B.M. 1937-285.’ (4) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662151’; (5) printed (on red paper), double framed ‘PARALECTOTYPE female | Erebia medusa euphrasia | Fruhstorfer, 1917 | (Altes und Neues über Erebien. — | Dt. ent. Z. Iris 31 (1/2): 44) | [line] | Dr S. Abadjiev design. 2002’.
Type material mentioned as ‘unbekannt’ (Hesselbarth, van Oorschot & Wagener, 1995: 855). Lectotype designated by Abadjiev (2002: 32). Treated as a different subspecies (Warren, 1936: 187; Hesselbarth, van Oorschot & Wagener, 1995: 855).
REFERENCES
Abadjiev, S. P. (2002): Types of Balkan butterflies in the collection of The Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea & Papilionoidea). — Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 53: 3—53.
Fruhstorfer, H. (1917): Altes und Neues über Erebien. — Dt. ent. Z. Iris 31 (1/2) (1.VII.1917): 43—56.
Hesselbarth, G., van Oorschot, H. & S. Wagener (1995): Die Tagfalter der Türkei unter Berücksichtigung der angrenzenden Länder. — Selbstverlag Sigbert Wagener, Bocholt, Bd. 1—3: 1354 + 847 pp.
Warren, B. C. S. (1936): Monograph of the genus
Erebia. — British Museum (Natural History), London, vii + 407 pp.; 104 pls. (28.III.1936).
