Species

Colias aurorina Herrich-Sch

    sovarensis Blom, 1979

Original Description

Colias aurorina ssp. sovarensis Blom, 1979

Type specimen(s)

Status: Holotype
Specimen data: HT (♂, 15.-21.VI.1973, W. L. Blom leg., presumably coll. W. L. Blom)
Current depository: RMNH, Leiden

Type locality

Type locality as cited in original description: "Iran, Prov. of Mazandaran, Khosh Yeilaq, Mt. Kuh-e-Sovar, 2000-2500 m [...] The type-locality is about 8 km northeast of Khosh-Yeilaq, a village between Shah-Passand (Prov. of Mazandaran) and Shahrud (Prov. of Semnan),"
Current country: Iran

Taxonomic history

Originally described as Colias aurorina ssp. sovarensis Blom, 1979
Treated as a subspecies of Colias libanotica Lederer, 1858 by Verhulst (2000: 56). Treated as a subspecies of Colias aurorina Herrich-Schäffer, 1850 by Grieshuber & Lamas (2007: 137).

Remarks

The butterfly collection of the late Willem L. Blom was bequested to RMNH, Leiden [C.L.Häuser].