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Bálint, Zs. ; Abadjiev, S.: An annotated list of Imre Frivaldszky's publications and the species-group and infraspecies names proposed by him for plants and animals (Regnum Plantare and Animale)

numerous butterfly specimens sent by I. FRIVALDSZKY to ACHILLE DEYROLLE (1813-1865), a well-known trader of natural history objects of his time (BÁLINT, unpublished). According to the correspondence of FRIVALDSZKY and many sources of the literature, he was in even closer relationship with several German contemporary merchants or naturalists (BÁLINT & OLIVIER 2001), so it can be presumed that important material originating from I. FRIVALDSZKY is hiding in various German public collections. All this material belongs to the first natural history samples from the Balkans and the western part of Anatolia, still exotic for Europeans in those times. I. FRIVALDSZKY proposed many species-group names for animals and plants, and also some infraspecies-group names for plants in his publications. Some of them are mere redescriptions of taxa described by classical authors, such as CARL VON LINNÉ (1707-1778) or JACOB HÜBNER (1761-1826). However, many of these taxa are formally described in his publications, therefore, they are available under the authorship of I. FRIVALDSZKY. Another large portion of the names were introduced as nomina nuda. A great percentage of these names remained undescribed by him, or became available via the authorship of the contemporary botanists or zoologists whom I. FRIVALDSZKY corresponded with (cf. BÁLINT & OLIVIER 2001 for the butterflies). Consequently, syntypical specimens representing taxa described by I. FRIVALDSZKY exist unrecorded in the general collections of numerous museums (cf BÁLINT 1999). Similarly, numerous specimens which are under a name proposed by I. FRIVALDSZKY, but described by someone else, most probably are syntypical or originate from the sample of the type material; therefore they are the best candidate for neotype designation in a taxonomic revision (BÁLINT & OLIVIER 2001). This paper presents an annotated list of all the publications of I. FRIVALDSZKY, which includes scientific names and lists of all the species-group and infraspecific names proposed by him for animal and plant species. It has the following aims: (1) to provide a brief overview of I. FRIVALDSZKY'

s descriptive works and to present a brief account of them for the wider public; (2) to enable that syntypical material of taxa described by I. FRIVALDSZKY can be more easily located and catalogued not only in the HNHM, but also in other public collections; (3) to help locating and cataloguing in the HNHM as important "historical" specimens; of those originating from I. FRIVALDSZKY, which served as type material of taxa described by other authors under the names proposed by I. FRIVALDSZKY, and finally (4) to provide clues for collecting sites or origin of the type material as precisely as possible, because this information is crucial for a taxonomic revision, when names proposed by I. FRIVALDSZKY are involved. The present paper cannot aim at precisely identifying the publication date of his papers as the general HNHM Library is in constant move, because of the reset-