Taxacom: Freiburg i. B. Museum curator

[Adam Cotton]

Taxacomers,

Please can someone send me the contact details for the entomology 
curator at the museum in Freiburg im Breislau, S Germany, preferably the 
resident lepidopterist if there is one. Alternatively please send this 
e-mail to the relevant curator to reply to me, thank you.

The sole syntype of Papilio bianor okinawensis Fruhstorfer, 1898 [no 
holotype designated in the original description] was obtained by Dr. 
Adolph Fritze in Okinawa and should be housed in the Freiburg Museum.

However, there is a 'type' specimen in NHM, London, with Fruhstorfer 
type labels which comes from Ishigaki (the southernmost part of the 
Ryukyu Island chain). This is clearly not the specimen described in 1898 
and actually belongs to a different species. Fruhstorfer stated in 1899 
that he had received a series from Ishigaki, and obviously put type 
labels on one of his Ishigaki specimens.

I have traced 'Dr. Adolph Fritze' to this zoologist:
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freiburg.de%2Fpb%2F%2CLen%2F1175861.html&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cdbb02397bac04f5750cf08dc6e90bcb0%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638506815115170314%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TO601EGLdQJb3f7I8hsNz5BfcJHXoEzruHZg0oJV4hc%3D&reserved=0
and his collection should hopefully still be in the museum there.

If the Okinawa syntype specimen can be located and photographed I 
propose designating it as the lectotype, since the Okinawa (and Amami 
Islands) populations have been shown to represent a distinct species, 
currently using a 1975 synonym as the valid name.

I can send photos of a similar Okinawa specimen to the curator at the 
museum in Freiburg i. B. in order to make it easy for him/her to find 
the type specimen. I tried to find staff details via the museum website, 
but they do not seem to have this information online so decided to ask 
Taxacom for assistance.

Thank you very much,
Adam Cotton.