Taxonomic comments on the treatment of the Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera) in volume 3 of Moths of Europe, Zygaenids, Pyralids 1 and Brachodids (2012) Author Efetov, Konstantin A. Crimean State Medical University, Department of Biological Chemistry and Laboratory of Biotechnology, 295006, Simferopol, Crimea; efetov. konst @ gmail. com Author Hofmann, Axel Am Hochgestade 5, D- 76351 Linkenheim-Hochstetten, Germany; hofmann @ abl-freiburg. de Author Tarmann, Gerhard M. Crimean State Medical University, Department of Biological Chemistry and Laboratory of Biotechnology, 295006, Simferopol, Crimea; efetov. konst @ gmail. com Author Tremewan, Walter Gerald Department of Life Sciences, Division of Insects, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, U. K.; Correspondence address: Pentreath, 6 Carlyon Road, Playing Place, Truro, Cornwall TR 3 6 EU, U. K.; wgt. pentreath @ btinternet. com wgt.pentreath@btinternet.com text Nota Lepidopterologica 2014 2014-09-08 37 2 123 133 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.37.7940 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/nl.37.7940 2367-5365-2-123 384F4C620E0E4B66B7203177920ABA23 36194B53FA0A536EB10436F822658257 575701 Adscita (Adscita) geryon geryon ( Huebner , [1813]) Sphinx geryon Huebner , [1813], Sammlung europaeischer Schmetterlinge 2: pl. 28, figs 130, 131. Type-locality. Europe [Germany]. Adscita geryon razza aeris Verity, 1946, Redia 31: 154. Type-locality. France: [Alpes-Maritimes], Saint-Barnabe . Syn. rev. Adscita geryon parisiensis Leraut, 2012, Moths of Europe 3: 62, pl. 6, figs 17, 18. Type-locality. France: Paris region. Syn. n. Distribution and taxonomic notes. Adscita geryon geryon is distributed from the Iberian Peninsula and Britain to European Russia, the Crimea and Turkey. Leraut (2012 : 61) reinstated the nominal taxon Adscita geryon aeris (Verity, 1946) as valid and on the following page newly described a subspecies from the Paris region. It is acknowledged that Adscita geryon is an extremely variable species, both in phenotype and genitalic morphology, but we see no justification for recalling a subspecies from synonymy, where it was placed by Efetov and Tarmann (1999 : 28, 2012 : 31), or in describing a new subspecies from France. Accordingly, both taxa are here formally placed as synonyms ( syn. rev. ; syn. n. ) of the nominotypical subspecies Adscita geryon geryon .