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 tungusa Herz,1899 [TL: Russian Federation ,Yakutia,River Witim];wing morphology and particularly the club shaped antenna indicate that this subspecies is referable to M. phoebe . Lukhtanov here designates a male as lectotype for the name tungusa Herz, 1899 . The lectotype is shown in Figures 11A & B , together with the labels ( Fig. 11C ). The labels on the pin are as follows: (1) on red paper handwritten in black “ Lectotype / Melitaea Phoebe Knock / var. Tungusa Herz / V. Lukhtanov design; (2) on black-edged white paper, printed in black “Кол.[лекциЯ] Вел.[икого] Кн.[ЯЗЯ]/ НиколаЯ/ Михайловича” (translates to: Collection of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich); (3) on white paper with a broad black surround printed in black on the upperside “Witim” and on the underside “O. Herz”; (4) on white paper (discolouring to brown) handwritten in black “1/12/7” (This means: 01 July [1888] (old style)/12 July [1888] (new style). No year is given on the data label but it can be deduced from Herz (1899: 240) . This diagnosis agrees with those of Higgins (1941: 342) , Korb & Bolshakov (2011: 41) and van Oorschot & Coutsis (2014: 60) ; not considered by Hesselbarth et al . (1995) .