Holopyga chrysonota

Holopyga chrysonota (Förster, 1853) Ellampus chrysonotus Förster, 1853:347. Holotype ♀; Hungary (Berlin). Holopyga ovata var. h Dahlbom, 1854:53. Syntypes ♂♂, ♀♀ [not holotype]; Austria; Greece: Rhodes Is. (Vienna, Berlin). Holopyga ignicollis Eversmann, 1858:549. Lectotype ♀ designated by Rosa et al., 2020b:100. Russia: “ campis Orenburgensibus et in promontor Uralensib.” (Krakow). Holopyga ignicollis Dahlbom, 1854 sensu auctorum (see Rosa et al., 2020b); Farzaneh et al., 2017:496 (Fars); Farhad et al., 2017:881 (Alborz, Hormozgan, Kerman, Mazandaran), 882 (fig. 3); Falahatpisheh et al., 2019:4 (Fars). Distribution. Iran (Alborz, Hormozgan, Kerman, Mazandaran). West-Palaearctic, from Western Europe to Central Asia; Northern Africa (Linsenmaier, 1999). Remarks. Holopyga similis was synonymised by Bischoff (1913) with H. chrysonota (Förster, 1853). Rosa et al. (2020b) pointed out that H. chrysonota is a different species and H. similis is the first available name for H. chrysonota sensu Linsenmaier (1959a, 1968, 1987, 1997, 1999). Dahlbom’s (1854) name H. ignicollis [actually given as var. h] is invalid. Eversmann (1858:549) was the first author to treat “var. ignicollis Klug ” (the name given by Dahlbom (1854) to one of the specimens examined in Berlin) as a valid subspecific name, thus making the name available as a species-group name (ICZN, 1999: Article 45.6). As a consequence, Eversmann (1858) is the author of the species (Rosa et al., 2020b).