An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera (Insecta) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part I. superfamilies Hepialoidea, Cossoidea, and Zygaenoidea

By

Zahiri, Reza
Tarmann, Gerhard M.
Efetov, Konstantin Aleksandrovich
Rajaei, Hossein
Fatahi, Maryam
Seidel, Matthias
Jaenicke, Birgit
Dalsgaard, Thure
Sikora, Marcy
Husemann, Martin

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-3-22

Original Publication

Evolutionary systematics

Volume

5

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

39--70

Subjects

Biodiversity , CeNak , Digitization , Georg Warnecke , Hanan Bytinski-Salz , Herbert Weidner , ZMH

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Hamburg Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.5.62003

 

Abstract

Zoological collections remain the main archive of animal biodiversity on Earth, and especially in times of large-scale declines of many groups represent important resources for biodiversity and conservation research. The most important individuals of these collections are the type specimens, which represent the original and unique reference for a species. While a full digitization of most museum collections currently remains utopic, lists of types are an essential resource for researchers to perform taxonomic revisions. Here, we provide an updated type catalogue of the lepidopteran superfamilies Hepialoidea, Cossoidea and Zygaenoidea deposited in the Zoological Museum of Hamburg (ZMH). In this paper, we report 259 specimens labelled as “types” belonging to 36 infrasubspecific taxa (invalid under the ICZN codes), 34 subspecies (16 of valid status) and 13 species (all of valid status). We present a full bibliography of the original descriptions and illustrations for all taxa, aiming to provide a comprehensive taxonomic guide to this collection.