Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 101. (Budapest 2009)

Bálint, Zs.: The butterfly taxa described by János Frivaldszky and their type material (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

168 Zs. Bálint engineering he was trained and eventually turned to be a zootaxonomist when he served as an adjunct and helper beside his elder relative IMRE FRIVALDSZKY (1799-1870). The two FRIVALDSZKYS travelled and collected together. They pioneered in the research of cavernicolous fauna in the Bihar Mountains of western Transylvania, they jointly visited the legendary region of Mehádia and Herkulesfürdő (now Mehadia and Bàile Herculane, Roumania) several times in the south-western Carpathians, and organized expeditions in the Balkans, western Anatolia and in the Mediterranean islands. JÁNOS FRIVALDSZKY became focused on Coleoptera, for what he got the lull support Írom I

M RE, whose position in the museum was taken over by him (BÁLINT & FRIVALDSZKY 2009). The first publication of JÁNOS FRIVALDSZKY was a joint one with I

M RE describing three cave beetles new to science (FRIVALDSZKY & FRIVALDSZKY 1857). Beside voluminous coleopteran taxonomic work, important local faunistic monographs have been also composed and published by the younger FRIVALDSZKY (1873^, b and 1876). Count BÉLA SZÉCHENYI (1837-1918) organized and sponsored a scientific expedition into Central Asia in the period of 1877-1880. The results were bounded in three volumes (SZÉCHENYI 1890-1897). The zoological material collected during the expedition was donated to the Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, and the specimens representing many insect orders were identified by JÁNOS FRIVALDSZKY ( 1886,1889, 1892, 1893). In the material there were Lepidoptera specimens from the territory of Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet, from China and Japan. The coleopterist FRIVALDSZKY described lour butterfly taxa as new to science plus diagnosed the male of a species known only on the basis of the holotype female (Fig. 1) (FRIVALDSZKY 1886). Finally the list of all the species captured on the SZÉCHENYI expedition and the descriptions of the butterflies discovered have been published together (FRIVALDSZKY 1893). The aim of the present paper is to review the names proposed for butterflies by JÁNOS FRIVALDSZKY in his paper published in 1

886.1 document the type material if original specimens could be located in the Lepidoptera collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (counting more than twelve thousand drawers housing about 1.7 million pinned specimens; see BÁLINT 2008). I review the names and designate lecotypes to fix objectively their identity. Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 101, 2009