Post by Adam Cotton on Nov 26, 2016 19:13:58 GMT
nomad wrote:
"Another early Papilio machaon specimen caught August 1898 at Mukden = Shenyang, Manchuria. Ex coll R.T. Turley. ... Subspecies unknown."
This is interesting to see. This specimen is from what is now known as Liaoning province, bordering N. Korea. Probably it belongs to ussuriensis Sheljuzhko, 1910. Eller, 1936 called this mandschuriensis but that is a nomen nudum, as he only gave a locality and no description.
Adam.
"Another early Papilio machaon specimen caught August 1898 at Mukden = Shenyang, Manchuria. Ex coll R.T. Turley. ... Subspecies unknown."
This is interesting to see. This specimen is from what is now known as Liaoning province, bordering N. Korea. Probably it belongs to ussuriensis Sheljuzhko, 1910. Eller, 1936 called this mandschuriensis but that is a nomen nudum, as he only gave a locality and no description.
Adam.
