The syntypes of Erebia melas leonhardi Fruhstorfer, 1918
(Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Nymphalidae)
‘E.[rebia] melas leonhardi subspec. nova’ Fruhstorfer, 1918 (Erebia alecto Rediviva. — Arch. Naturgesch. 82 (1916) A (7) (I.1918): 131; Taf. I: Fig. 3 [male], 4 [female]). Type locality: [Croatia]: ‘Velebit, Ostraria’ (Fruhstorfer, 1918: 132).
Syntypes male, female, in BMNH London, with labels:
REFERENCES
Fruhstorfer, H. (1918): Erebia alecto Rediviva. — Arch. Naturgesch. 82 (1916) A (7) (I.1918): 121—169, 2 Taf.
Warren, B. C. S. (1936): Monograph of the genus Erebia. — British Museum (Natural History), London, vii + 407 pp.; 104 pls. (28.III.1936).
Syntypes male, female, in BMNH London, with labels:
[1 male] (1) handwritten (on white paper, framed) ‘melas | leonhardi | Frhst.’; (2) printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662144’;Originally mentioned type material: ‘3 [male][female]... Eine große Serie in der Sammlung Leonhard’ ((Fruhstorfer, 1918: 132). Treated as a different subspecies, endemic for the Balkans (Warren, 1936: 350).
[2 female] printed (on white paper) ‘BMNH(E) # 662145’;
— Both syntypes with (1) printed (on white paper) ‘Velebit.Ostraria | M. Hilf 1910 | Coll. O. Leonhard’; (2) printed (on red paper) ‘Type’; (3) printed (on white paper) ‘Fruhstorfer Coll. | B.M. 1937-285.’.
REFERENCES
Fruhstorfer, H. (1918): Erebia alecto Rediviva. — Arch. Naturgesch. 82 (1916) A (7) (I.1918): 121—169, 2 Taf.
Warren, B. C. S. (1936): Monograph of the genus Erebia. — British Museum (Natural History), London, vii + 407 pp.; 104 pls. (28.III.1936).