‘[
Parnassius mnemosyne]
parnassia subsp. nova.’ Bryk, 1932 (Parnassiologische Studien aus England. — Parnassiana 2 (4/5) (6.VIII.1932): 46). Type locality: [Greece]: ‘Parnass’ (Bryk, 1932: 46).
Syntypes 2 males, 1 female, in BMNH London, with labels:
[1 male] (1) handwritten (on white paper) ‘Parnassus | Kruper | 1890’; (2) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) ‘male Paratype | B.M. TYPE | No.Rh. 18361 | Parnassius | mnemosyne | parnassia | Bryk.’; (3) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662023’;
[2 male] (1) circle printed (on white paper with red frame) ‘Type’; (2) handwritten (on white paper) ‘1/6 60’; (3) handwritten (on white paper) ‘Parnass | /4 65’; (4) printed (on white paper) ‘Greece | Merlin Coll. | 96-275’; (5) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) ‘male Holotype | B.M. TYPE | No.Rh. 18360 | Parnassius | mnemosyne | parnassia | Bryk.’; (6) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662024’;
[3 female] (1) handwritten (on white paper) ‘v. Athene | Graec. Parnass’; (2) printed (on white paper) ‘999.’; (3) handwritten (on white paper) ‘Paratype | Parnassiana | p. 46 1932’, on the back side ‘parnassia | type Bryk’; (4) printed (on white paper) ‘Rothschild | Bequest | B.M. 1939-1.’; (5) printed with handwritten inscriptions [here italicised] (on white paper) ‘female Paratype | B.M. TYPE | No.Rh. 18359 | Parnassius | mnemosyne | parnassia | Bryk.’; (6) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662025’;
— Syntypes 1 and 3 with additional circle printed (on white paper with yellow frame) ‘Para- | type’.
Listed by Ackery (1973: 21). This taxon was originally described and subsequently treated as a different subspecies (Bryk, 1935: 85).
REFERENCES
Ackery, P. R. (1973): A list of the type-specimens of
Parnassius (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). — Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 29 (1) (9.XI.1973): 1—35, 1 pl.
Bryk, F. (1932): Parnassiologische Studien aus England. — Parnassiana 2 (4/5) (6.VIII.1932): 46—50.
Bryk, F. (1935): Lepidoptera. Parnassiidae pars II (Subfam. Parnassiinae). — Das Tierreich 65 (XI.1935): I—LI, 1—788.
