Abstract
The article presents an addition to the catalogue of types of Papilionoidea, kept at the National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia and provides data on three nominal species group taxa of Nymphalidae, described from Greece, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.
Highlights
The most recent revision of the collection of Lepidoptera at the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (NMNHS) led to the discovery of type material of three nominal species group taxa of butterflies (Papilionoidea) that have never been reported previously
The article presents an addition to the catalogue of types of Papilionoidea, kept at the National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia and provides data on three nominal species group taxa of Nymphalidae, described from Greece, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia
The museum is well known as a depository of important collections of mostly Balkan butterflies and moths
Summary
The most recent revision of the collection of Lepidoptera at the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (NMNHS) led to the discovery of type material of three nominal species group taxa of butterflies (Papilionoidea) that have never been reported previously. Other publications on type materials of Balkan butterflies include those on the collections of the former Institute of Zoology [currently Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research] at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (Abadjiev, 2001), Natural History Museum, London (Abadjiev, 2002, 2006), and Laboratoire d’Entomologie, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (Abadjiev, 2018)
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