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Chr. hippothoë leonhardi subspec. nova.’ Fruhstorfer, H., 1917 (Neue Lycaeniden. — Ent. Rdsch. 34 (4) (13.IV.1917): 16). Type locality: ‘Bulgarien, Rilo... Herzegowina Vucijabara’ (Fruhstorfer, 1917: 16).
Syntypes 1
male, 2 females, in BMNH London, with labels:
[1 male] (1) circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘SYN- | TYPE’; (2) circle printed (on white paper with red frame) ‘Type | H T’; (3) printed (on white paper, framed) ‘Bulg. Tschamkorija | M. Hilf 1911 | Coll. O. Leonhard’; (4) handwritten (on white paper) ‘Presumed type | of leonhardi | Fruhst. | (G.T., May, 1941).’; (5) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662106’;
[2 female] (1) circle printed (on white paper with red frame) ‘Type | A T’; (2) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper, framed) ‘Bulg. Tschamkorija | 11.8. | M. Hilf 1911 | Coll. O. Leonhard’; (3) handwritten (on white paper) ‘Presumed | female type of | leonhardi | Fruhst. | (G.T., May, 1941).’; (4) handwritten (on white paper) ‘Pol. hip. aber- | ratio’; (5) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662107’;
[3 female](1) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper, framed) ‘Bulg. Tschamkorija | 20.7. | M. Hilf 1911 | Coll. O. Leonhard’; (2) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662108’;
— Syntypes 1 and 2 with printed (on white paper) ‘Fruhstorfer Coll. | B.M.1933-131’; 2 and 3 with circle printed (on white paper with blue frame) ‘Syn- | type’; all the syntypes with printed (on white paper) ‘SYNTYPE | Chrysophanus | hippothoe leonhardi | Fruhstorfer. | det. P. Ackery, 1991.’.
Type material originally mentioned consisted of ‘5 males, 4 females Koll. Fruhst., eine große Serie in der Sammlung Leonhard’ (Fruhstorfer, 1917: 16). This taxon was originally described as a subspecies of
Lycaena hippothoe (Linnaeus, 1761); subsequently treated as a subspecies of
Lycaena candens (Herrich-Schäffer, [1844]).
Lycaena candens leonhardi Fruhstorfer, 1917 is an endemic for the Balkan Peninsula.
REFERENCE
Fruhstorfer, H. (1917): Neue Lycaeniden. — Ent. Rdsch. 34 (4) (13.IV.1917): 16—18.
