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03C887F77508FFB7FF07FB5C65931AC8.text	03C887F77508FFB7FF07FB5C65931AC8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Melitaea telona Fruhstorfer 1908	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Lectotype of  Melitaea telona Fruhstorfer, 1908</p>
            <p> The present authors designated a ♁ lectotype specimen for  Melitaea phoebe telona Fruhstorfer, 1908 (Tennent &amp; Russell, 2023) in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris. As can be seen from an illustration (Tennent &amp; Russell, 2023: 133, fig. 1a), the abdomen was detached from the specimen before the designation was made, and was not dissected (Fig. 5). </p>
            <p> Benyamini(2023:86,fig.2)illustrated the♁genitalia,apparently of this specimen,labelled“6270– LECTOTYPE  M. telona /Jerusalem, Palestine (Israel), VDP = 0.740mm ”, although there is no mention of either ‘Jerusalem’ or ‘Israel’ on the labels of the lectotype (Tennent &amp; Russell, 2023: 133, fig. 1a); nor is there any acknowledgement of the MNHN. The Curator of  Lepidoptera at MNHN acknowledged that the abdomen was loaned to Benyamini in 2022 (Rodolphe Rougerie, in litt. to the first author, 23 May 2023). </p>
            <p>We believe that the number “6270” refers to a drawing by John Coutsis (see similar numbers in Oorschot &amp; Coutsis (2014), accompanying genitalia drawings by Coutsis), as it is in the same numerical sequence as other numbered drawings figured by Benyamini (2023: 86, Fig. 2).</p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C887F77508FFB7FF07FB5C65931AC8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Russell, Peter J. C.;Tennent, W. John	Russell, Peter J. C., Tennent, W. John (2023): Notes on the Melitaea ornata Christoph, 1893, complex in the Levant (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) including new synonymy and observations on lectotype designations for Melitaea phoebe dorae Graves, 1925. Zootaxa 5353 (3): 276-284, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.3.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5353.3.5
