Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici

Author(s): Bálint, Zs.
Title: The butterfly taxa described by János Frivaldszky and their type material (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
Year: 2009
Volume: 101
Pages: 167-180.

Abstract: Four species-group names (Papilionoidea) proposed by JÁNOS FRIVALDSZKY in 1886 for butterflies are reviewed studying original descriptions, documentations and type specimens. The name antimus (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Yphtimini: Mycalesis) is considered to be a nomen oblitum. The type is lost. The name kreitneri (Pieridae: Pierinae: Pierini: Aporia) is represented by one male syntype, which is selected and designated as lectotype for fixing the identity of the name. It is suggested that kreitneri represents a hitherto unrecognised Sino-Himalayan species. The name loczyi (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Yphtimini: Loxerebia) is represented by four male syntypes. One of the syntype specimens is selected and designated as lectotype for fixing the identity of the name. The name szechenyii (Papilionidae: Parnassinae: Parnassini: Parnassius) is represented by one male syntype, which is selected and designated as lectotype for fixing the identity of the name. The taxon Parnassius szechenyii is polytypic and possesses numerous subspecies, and by the lectotype designation the identity of the nominate race is objectively fixed. Certain aspects regarding the history of the Lepidoptera Collections deposited Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum are discussed. With 10 figures.
Keywords: Papilionoidea, Frivaldszky, lectotype, Széchenyi, China
Subject: museology, history of science

Journal: Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici
Journal abbreviation: Annls hist.-nat. Mus. nat. hung.
ISSN: 0521-4726
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Matskási, I. & Merkl, O.