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) Author Russell, Peter J. C. Oakmeadow, Wessex Avenue, East Wittering, West Sussex PO 20 8 NP, U. K. Author Lukhtanov, Vladimir A. Department of Karyosystematics, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia. Author Tennent, W. John 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 text Zootaxa 2022 2022-05-24 5141 1 25 38 journal article 56757 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.1.2 f0bcd63f-20f7-438b-b72b-77d49b944722 1175-5326 6577627 F1B8B140-4A7C-4AAA-97C6-A0DAA259C8E3 M. phoebe var. saturata Staudinger, 1892 [TL: Kentai Mountains, Mongolia ] A large and brightly coloured form typical of ‘mountain forms’ ( Higgins 1941: 342 ). Van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014 : plate 12, fig. 25) figured a brightly coloured male syntype from the Staudinger collection in Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Both authors synonymised this variety with M. phoebe , as did Russell & Tennent (2016: 53 , note 80). On the internet www.funet.fi (accessed 26.10.2020 ) has a photograph (© Kosterin) of the underside of a female(?), from the Iskitim District, Novosibirst Province, Western Siberia, Russian Federation on 21 st June 1997 ; this shows clearly the wing markings and antennae distinctive of M. phoebe rather than of M. ornata . We confirm that the name saturata is referable to M. phoebe .