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
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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
.