Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 696 717 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Ophrys insectifera Linnaeus var. arachnites Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 949. 1753 . RCN: 6855. Lectotype (Baumann & al. in Mitteilungsbl. Arbeitskr. Heim. Orchid. Baden-Wuerttemberg 21: 509, Abb. 31. 1989): [icon] " Orchis andrachnitis" in Plantin, Pl. Stirp. Icon.: 185. 1581. Current name: Ophrys apifera Huds. ( Orchidaceae ). Note: The varietal epithet was originally spelled "adrachnites" in the protologue but was subsequently corrected by Linnaeus. Rothmaler (in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 49: 280. 1940) treated this as the basionym of O. arachnites (L.) L. (1754) , followed by Greuter (in Candollea 44: 566. 1989). However, Britten (in J. Bot. 47, Suppl. 1909; 50: 312-314. 1912) argued that " O. arachnites " resulted from a typographic error. Stearn ( Introd. Ray's Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit. (Ray Soc. ed.): 42-68. 1973) evidently agreed as he did not list the name as new.