Stabilisation of some names of European butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in their prevailing usage
Author
Balletto, Emilio
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy. & emilio. balletto @ unito. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1168 - 2791
Author
Barbero, Francesca
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy. & francesca. barbero @ unito. it; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2667 - 0435
Author
Bonelli, Simona
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy. & simona. bonelli @ unito. it; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5185 - 8136
Author
Casacci, Luca P.
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy. & Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Author
Dapporto, Leonardo
ZEN lab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Italy.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-25
4780
2
387
395
journal article
21881
10.11646/zootaxa.4780.2.11
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1175-5326
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Genus
Euchloe
Hübner, [1819]
Three, basically parapatric, species of ‘dappled whites’ (genus
Euchloe
) are unanimously recognised to occur in Europe, viz. 1) the eastern dappled white, 2) the mountain dappled white, and 3) the western dappled white. By common consensus, the names [
Papilio
]
ausonia
(Hübner, [1804])
,
Pontia simplonia
Freyer, 1829
and
Euchloe crameri
Butler, 1869
, in the same order, have slowly become fixed to identify them (
Bernardi 1945
,
1947
,
Tolman & Lewington 1997
,
Tshikolovets 2011
,
Wiemers
et al.
2018
, etc.).
Each of these names is riddled with interpretational and nomenclatural problems principally deriving from mismatches between characters shown by the illustrated type materials and their stated type localities. As required by Art. 75.3.1 (
ICZN 1999
and later updates), these problems will be resolved by designating two
lectotypes
and two
neotypes
.