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https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.42.031

Type specimens of Zygaenidae in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (Lepidoptera)


Stanislav Abadjiev https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9106-1754; Ana Nahirnić-Beshkova https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7922-9910

26 February 2021 · volume 42 · [issue 3] · pp. 9–13 · PDF [full text]

Abstract: This paper comprises an annotated list of the type material of Zygaenidae kept in the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. The collection contains types of five nominal species group taxa, described by B. Alberti, A. Drenowski and O. Holik.

Keywords: Bulgaria, holotype, nomenclature, paratype, Turkey

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Abadjiev S., Nahirnić-Beshkova A. 2021 Type specimens of Zygaenidae in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (Lepidoptera). Historia naturalis bulgarica 42: 9–13.

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