Types of Thyatirinae (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae) in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author
Mironov, Vladimir G.
Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaya nab. 1, RUS- 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia. E-mail: pugs @ zin. ru
Author
Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
Department of Biology & Chemistry, Uljanovsk State Pedagogical University, RUS- 432700 Uljanovsk, Russia.
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violacea
Fixsen, 1887
Figs 17, 18
Thyatira Violacea
Fixsen, 1887
,
Mémoires sur les lépidoptères
3: 352, pl. 15, fig. 11. Type locality: [
Korea
]. In
Laszlo
& al.
(2007: 202)
“Pung Tun
a
” [misspelling of Pung Tung] was fixed as the type locality for the species after designation of the
lectotype
. According to
Fixsen (1887: 243)
, Pung Tung was a small village with ca. 12–15 huts situated in a tight river valley 102 English miles NE from
Seoul
and 129 NE from Chemulpoo at an altitude of about
1700 ft
a.s.l. (fig. 23).
FIGURES 1–23.
Types of
Thyatirinae
. 1, holotype of
Cymatophora albicostata
Bremer, 1861
(ZISP); 2, its reproduction from
Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg
8(1): pl. 5, fig. 6; 3, lectotype of
Cymatophora octogesima
var.
caucasica
Krulikowsky, 1901
(ZMKU: courtesy I. Kostjuk); 4, lectotype of
Gonophora dieckmanni
Graeser, 1888
(ZISP); 5, correct lectotype of
Thyatira hedemanni
Christoph, 1885
(ZISP); 6, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 2, fig. 3); 7, holotype of
Thyatira derasa
var.
intermedia
Bremer, [1864]
(ZISP); 8, holotype of
Tethea ocularis
ssp.
opa
Zolotuhin, 1997
(ZISP); 9, lectotype of
Thyatira moellendorfi
Fixsen, 1887
(ZISP); 10—its reproduction from the original description (pl. 15, fig. 12); 11, false lectotype of
Asphalia nigrofascicula
Graeser, 1888
(NHML); 12, correct lectotype of
A. nigrofascicula
Graes.
(ZISP); 13, so-called ‘type’ of
Cymatophora tancrei
Graeser, 1888
, from ZMHU; 14, labels of
C. tancrei
enlarged and cover page of the publication issue; 15, false holotype of
Cymatophora or
var.
terrosa
Graeser, 1888
(ZMHU); 16, correct lectotype of
C. or
var.
terrosa
Graes.
(ZISP); 17, lectotype of
Thyatira violacea
Fixsen, 1887
(ZISP); 18, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 15, fig. 11); 19, paratype of
Nothoploca nigripunctata
ssp.
zolotarenkoi
Dubatolov, 1987
(ZISP); 20, holotype of
Cymatophora trifolium
Alphéraky, 1895
(ZISP); 21, lectotype of
Thyatira opalescens
Alphéraky, 1897
(ZISP); 22, its reproduction from the original description (pl. 9, fig. 7); 23, location of Pung-Tung village on the map by
Fixsen (1887)
.
Present status:
Cymatochrocis violacea
(
Fixsen, 1887
)
:
Habrosynini
.
Taxonomic remarks: Traditionally has been considered a member of the genus
Habrosyne
s. lat.
;
Cymatochrocis
is thus its subgenus or a separate genus. We follow the second point of view.
Nomenclatural notes: The type series was collected in the period from 10 to 18 August [1884]; the number of
syntypes
was not specified.
5 specimens
in ZISP originate from O. Herz’s material collected by him from Pung- Tung, but only 2 of them (
♂♂
: cabinet 217/drawer 6) correspond to the period given in the original description. A male specimen which was designated a
lectotype
by our colleagues (
László
& al.
2007: 202
) was collected on
18 August 1884
and bears the following labels: a white off quadrat with wide black frame and inscription with black ink “
♂
| Pung | Tung” and on thereverse “18/6 8. 84 | Herz”, a white rectangle with printed «Колл. Вел. Кн. | НиколаЯ | Михайловича», red (black framed) quadrat with the printed text “
LECTOTYPUS
|
Thyatira violacea
|
Fixsen, 1887
| Designated by Gy. M. | László, G. Ronkay and | L. Ronkay, 2001”, a red rectangle “
SYNTYPUS
♂
|
Habrosyne
| violaceae [sic!] Fixsen”, a narrow blue rectangle with printed “ex coll. | Zool. Inst. Acad. Sci. |
St.Petersburg
,
Russia
”, a wide white rectangle with narrow black frame and printed text “
Habrosyne
| violacea | (
Fixsen, 1887
) | det. Gy. M. László & G. | Ronkay, 2001”, and white rectangle with printed “gen. prep. No. | LG 1667 M”.
Another male labeled “10. 8. 84 | 29. 7. Herz” from the collection of the Grand Duke Nikolay Mikhailovich should be considered a
paralectotype
of the species.
Further
topotypes originated from the same series but were collected on “27. 7. 84 | 15 Herz |
Coll. Alph.
” (
♂
)
;
“7. 8. 84 | 20. 7. | Herz” (
♂
)
;
“
Coll. Alph.
| 5. 8. 84 | Herz” (
♀
)
.
These
dates do not correspond to the original de- scription and these specimens thus must be excluded from the
syntype
series; two of them arrived in
ZISP
at a later date with the
S. Alphéraky
collection
.
Two further specimens were designated with red labels by
Gy.M. László, G
. Ronkay and
L. Ronkay
in 2001 as
paralectotypes
and
syntypes
of the taxon. The female is labeled: “
Korea
” and “к. Ершова” [Erschoff’s collection] and the male: “
Korea
| Jankowsky” and «Колл. Вел. Кн. | НиколаЯ | Михайловича»; neither has any connection with Fixsen’s type series and both must be also excluded from the original
syntype
series
.