Forum Entomologi Italiani

Che rango ha attualmente questo binomio? Ho exx di Valdieri e Passo Muratone, entrambi pare nella zona propria. Grazie.

Ti riporto due brani di un lavoro in fase di pubblicazione a firma Balletto, Cassulo & Bonelli:

"Doubts may still be raised as concerns the taxonomic status of some of these and other taxa, such as, for instance in the case of Hipparchia genava, which may or may not by a separate species from H. hermione. The presence in Italy of the latter taxon (if at all separate) is also doubtful, as it might occur in the extreme N.W. of the Country (W. Liguria), but data are uncertain, since this region, together with some adjoining French territories, may be part of a rather broad and indefined hybridisation area between the two."

"Since Jutzeler’s et al. (2005. Linn. belg., 20 (4): 145–160 and 2006. 20 (5): 193–206 and 20 (6): 229–233), some European authors consider now Hipparchia genava a separate species from H. hermione. Arguments favouring this hypothesis are mainly based on characters of larval morphology, since the Jullien’s organs (Jullien, 1909. Bull. Soc. Lép. Genève, 1: 361–365) to which reference is also made, tend to overlap and leave many identification doubts, while characters from external morphology are fuzzy. A rather broad hybridisation area between the two taxa might occur in the East of France. While waiting for the situation to become completely clarified, perhaps by some DNA study, we prefer to provisionally maintain the name Eumenis fagi genava within the synonymy of H. hermione. In all events, it may be worth to observe that, should the two taxa represent separate species, “real” H. hermione (s. str.) might occur, in Italy, only on the southern slopes of the Ligurian Alps. H. genava is not deemed a separate species in any current European database."

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Maurizio Bollino

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