Correct name for a SW European Parnassius species

[Adam Cotton]

Just published today, open access from the link below:

dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2021.43.8

Cotton, A.M., Bolotov, I. N., Gofarov, M. Y., Gorbach, V. V., Kolosova, Y. S., Zheludkova, A. A., Kondakov, A. V. & Spitsyn, V. M. (2021). The correct name for the South Western European species recently separated from Parnassius mnemosyne (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Ecologica Montenegrina, 43: 56–58.

Abstract:

The name nebrodensis Turati is shown to be unavailable and the first available name for the species is chosen by invoking the First Reviser Principle under the ICZN Code as Parnassius turatii Fruhstorfer, 1908. Rothschild was determined to be the first author to confer availability on the name nebrodensis by application of the Code.

Please also see the previous paper, which I noticed used an unavailable name for a new species:

Bolotov et al. (2021) Parnassius nebrodensis: A threatened but neglected Apollo butterfly species from Southern Europe (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Ecologica Montenegrina, 40: 140–163.

www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/em.2021.40.13

Adam.

[varz1234]

Rhopalocera palaearctica

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[Adam Cotton]

Vazrick,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not sure what your cryptic comment "Rhopalocera palearctica" refers to, but I can confirm that the comments by Verity regarding this issue are not valid under the ICZN Code.

On p. 319 of that work Verity placed vernetanus and turatii as synonyms of pyrenaica but the latter name is a junior homonym of Parnassius apollo pyrenaica Harcourt-Bath, 1896 and as a result this selection by Verity is invalid.

The name nebrodensis is also unavailable from Rhopalocera palearctica, as it was infrasubspecific. Verity described it as "Parnassius mnemosyne var. nubilosus form nebrodensis Turati in litt", which is clearly unavailable as a quadrinomial and thus infrasubspecific. Rothschild (1918) conferred availability on nebrodensis by treating it as a subspecies and gave a bibliographic citation to Verity's description.

All citations and further explanation is available in my paper at www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/69858

Adam.