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Hipparchia... 333.
Pap. Phorcys’ Freyer, [1836] (Neuere Beiträge zur Schmetterlingskunde... 3 (33): 4; Tab. 193: Fig. 2). Type locality: ‘Bulgaria, central Stara Planina’ (Bálint & Olivier, 2001: 179).
Lectotype male [without abdomen and left antenna], in BMNH London, with labels:
— (1) handwritten (on yellow paper upperside) ‘Phorcys’; (2) handwritten (on light blue paper) ‘Ceto var. | Phorcys | Frr. 193, 2.’; (3) printed (on white paper) ‘Zell. Coll. | 1884.’; (4) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662141’; (5) printed (on red paper), double framed ‘LECTOTYPE male | Erebia alberganus phorcys | (Freyer, [1836]) | «Hipparchia... 333. Pap. Phorcys» | Freyer, C. F., [1836] | (Neuere Beiträge zur Schmetterlingskunde... | 3: 4; Tab. 193: Fig. 2) | [line] | Dr S. Abadjiev design. 2002’.
Lectotype designated by Abadjiev (2002: 34). Treated as a different subspecies, endemic for Stara Planina Range.
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.
Bálint, Zs. & A. Olivier (2001): Butterfly species-group taxa from the Balkans and western Anatolia attributed to Imre Frivaldszky (1799—1870) (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea & Papilionoidea). — Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 93: 151—198.
Freyer, C. F. (1831—1858): Neuere Beiträge zur Schmetterlingskunde mit Abbildungen nach der Natur. — Published by the author and Rieger, Augsburg, 1 (1—16) (1831—1833): 182 S., 96 Tab.; 2 (17—32) (1833—1836): 162 S., 96 Tab.; 3 (33—48) (1836—1839): 134 S., 96 Tab.; 4 (49—64) (1839—1842): 167 S., 96 Tab.; 5 (65—80) (1842—1845): 166 S., 96 Tab.; 6 (81—100) (1846—1852): 195 S., 120 Tab.; 7 (101—120) (1858): 178 S., 100 Tab.
