Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 58. (Budapest 1966)

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Fig. 4. First pair: Melanargia galathea cf. scolis FRÜHST, (left: Felsőpeszér, male; right: same, female). — Second pair: Melanargia galathea bugaeensis ssp. n. (left: Bugac, male; right: Kelebia, female) tian and SE Transylvanian populations, under the name ssp. syntelia. Later he found further differences between them, and again separated the Transylvanian populations under the name ssp. scolis, but, since he had no sufficient material from Hungary, left our race without a name. Unfortunately, we have but meagre materials from the typical localities of ssp. scolis to arrive at a final decision in this problem. Since, however, the two females originating from the locus typicus do not differ in essentials from the females of the Great Plains, the south Hungarian procida Formenkreis might for the moment be relegated to ssp. scolis. Thanks to the intensive faunistic investigations of recent years, there became known, from the southern part of the Great Plains between the Danube and the Tisza, a hitherto unknown, unusually large and vividly coloured group of populations belonging to the procida Formenkreis, to be described as follows: Melanargia galathea L. ssp. bugaeensis ssp. n. Male alar expanse: 45—51 mm, female expanse: 50—57 mm. The wings are broad. The basic colour is a vivid white, eventually of a pale yellowish hue. The dark elements of the pattern are deep black and not brownish. Due to the intense colours, the animals are considerably more contrasty than e.g. the scolis specimens from Peszer further in the north, not only on the upper- but also on the underside of the wings. The proportion of the white and black elements is also slightly different, especially on the hind wing, where certain spots of the white band become constricted. Especially the white spot, between the veins m, 3

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